Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that U.S. troops were available and ready to stop any Russian incursion. Meanwhile, the U.S. had reassured the jittery French and British through NATO's retiring General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (see below), that any Soviet move to rocket-bomb London and Paris would be met by atomic retaliation...
Workers' councils, mindful of shortening supplies of food and the lack of heat, met with Soviet commanders. A return to work, under certain conditions, might have been arranged but for the news which flashed through Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians. Soviet police had been seen going from house to house arresting young rebels. Now the grapevine reported that at least 180 boxcar loads of Hungarians had been deported in a few days. Notes dropped by young deportees along the railroad tracks had been picked up. One of these, copied and circulated all over Budapest...
...Parliament. With deliberate optimism, the President left unsaid one fundamental fact: the test which the U.N. faced last week is a bigger one than it was designed to meet. Whatever the world's hopeful liberals and war-weary, propaganda-stuffed peoples may have believed, the hardheaded diplomats who met in San Francisco to write the U.N. Charter in the dying months of World War II had no intention of establishing a world government. At the common insistence of the major powers-the U.S. and Britain were just as adamant as the U.S.S.R.-the U.N.'s founders wrote into...
...guests of Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, Kings, Presidents and other potentates met secretly in a UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser...
...Enemy. The rulers quickly found that they could not even agree on why they met. Egypt and Syria wanted all Arab states to act jointly against the French and British invaders. The Iraqis broke in to say that Israel was a more urgent problem than Suez. "The uprooting of Israel is the only practicable method to secure peace and order in the Middle East," said the Iraqis, arguing that as long as the Palestine question was left unsettled, the door to Soviet penetration stood wide in the Middle East...