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...late, objected to Nehru's plan to avoid controversial questions and to skip opening speeches. Turkey's Fatin Rustu Zorlu said coldly that Turkey was not ready to accept decisions taken in its absence. "We have traveled a long way, and we want to be heard," said Liberia's Momolu Dukuly. Angrily, Nehru stalked out of the room, snapping, "The trouble with this conference is that there are too many people here with a U.N. mentality...
Rebuttal by Nehru. Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Liberia, the Sudan and the Philippines joined in sponsoring a resolution condemning "all types of colonialism, including international doctrines resorting to methods of force,' infiltration and subversion." Pakistan's Mohammed Ali offered a substitute for Nehru's and Chou's "five principles" which included (as the "five principles" do not) the right to form alliances for self-defense. Turkey's Zorlu supported him. "If it were not for NATO, Turkey would not be able to attend the conference," said Zorlu...
...arrived in Washington as an avowed dry and an outspoken opponent of the League of Nations and of U.S. loans to foreign countries-especially Negro Liberia. He rapidly became less doctrinaire, and moved toward the middle course...
...investigators were considering the request when another event took the decision out of their hands. The rebels sent out a P47 Thunderbolt that impudently buzzed an O.A.S. observer plane and went on to bomb and strafe the town of Liberia. At the same time, invaders' infantry and Figueres' volunteers met in a clash just north of Liberia. A few hours later, at 2 o'clock one morning this week, the council met again in emergency session and grimly voted to ask the U.S. to sell Costa Rica four P-51 Mustang fighters. That afternoon the planes were...
After a month's tour of the U.S., Liberia's popular, Bible-quoting 18th President, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 58, sailed from Manhattan for Haiti. From there he will proceed to Jamaica before heading home for West Africa. While in the U.S., he picked up nine honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge...