Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the new policy the U.S. intends to cast its protective cloak over Israel and over the Moslem world from Morocco to Pakistan. Any Middle Eastern nation that asks for help against a Red threat will get it. Any threatened nation that does not request help will not get it. The new policy will be a voluntary and cooperative endeavor. In effect, the U.S. is moving into a power vacuum left by the decline of British power and the depletion of the British treasury. Moreover, the British and French, by attacking Suez, have all but wrecked their political acceptance...
...policy lessen U.S. support of the United Nations. By setting up new safeguards against the external Soviet threat, the U.S. hoped that the U.N. would be able to grapple more freely and more effectively than ever before with the region's internal problems, e.g., Israel v. the Arabs. And as for subversion, Dwight Eisenhower was already on the record that he would oppose the entry into the Middle East of any Soviet "volunteers...
...succeeding days, Eden coped doggedly with a barrage of harassing questions from the Opposition, a lonely man flanked by a depressed and worried party. Like hounds worrying a fox, Laborites pressed their charge that there had been collusion between Britain. France and Israel in the attack on Suez...
...dispatch box angrily: "To say that Her Majesty's government was engaged in some dishonorable activity is completely untrue, and I must emphatically deny it." Liberal Leader Joseph Grimond, still not satisfied, demanded to know whether the government could categorically deny that it had had information that Israel was going to attack Egypt. The House rang with cries of "Answer, answer." Finally Eden got to his feet. "There was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt-there was not," he insisted. "But there was something else. There was-we knew it perfectly well-a risk...
COUNT ROLLER SKATES, by Thomas Sancton (383 pp.; Doubleday, $3.95), whizzes its screwball hero right through the mentally sound barrier. "Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore...