Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England cricket matches, pronounced his committee's task so delicate that "we should all be as silent as Trappist monks." By week's end Cairo intimated that Nasser would receive the conference's proposals "as a matter of courtesy." Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was asked what would happen if Nasser should reject their proposals. Said Lloyd: "I hope that is precisely the question he is asking himself...
...should have given him long ago) of a shift of emphasis from conventional military forces to nuclear "firepower" as a primary goal of the Eisenhower Administration. Heusinger also brought U.S. "reassurances" that the Radford plan was not yet policy, and last week both Dulles and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd promised West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano that "for the time being" they do not intend to reduce their combat potential in West Germany...
...Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde Englishwoman named Mrs. James Mirylees...
...week's end Britain's Selwyn Lloyd (who had originally called the seizure a greater threat to Britain than Korea or the Berlin blockade) made some incisive contributions to the search for a temperate answer. "Sovereignty," he said, "does not mean the right to do exactly what you please within your own territory. The maxim, 'So use your own that you do not hurt that which belongs to another (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas),' is one which is accepted by every legal system in the world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance...
...supported by young intellectuals who owed their education to Belgrave, they launched an all-out campaign against Sir Charles and his lady. (In the best paternalistic tradition, Lady Belgrave ran the school system herself, paid teachers personally instead of through a central agency.) Last March, when Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made a visit to Bahrein, he was stoned by crowds shouting "Down with Britain." A few days later, five days of strikes and rioting broke out over Belgrave, and eleven were killed...