Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early last week even some of Good Officer Murphy's assistants were privately calling the good-offices mission a failure. Then came a personal letter for Felix Gaillard. The writer: Dwight Eisenhower. Its reported contents: an appeal to Gaillard to give the good-offices mission another chance-a warning that the U.S. does not want to be forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing...
...Guard. Thanks to Ike's intervention, the good-offices mission had won a reprieve, but neither it nor Félix Gaillard was yet out of the woods. In exchange for their agreement to renewed negotiations with Bourguiba, the right-wingers had obliged Gaillard to call the National Assembly back two weeks early from its Easter vacation to pass judgment on the new policy. This week France's parliamentarians converged on Paris, ready to make sure that no French Premier retreated one step from their determination to seek a military solution in Algeria, at whatever cost...
...wins economic leadership of Southeast Asia. Yet six weeks ago, when a "private" Japanese delegation signed a $196 million trade pact with Red China. Kishi gave the deal his blessing. Nor did he boggle at the key condition extracted by Peking: establishment in Tokyo of a Chinese Communist trade mission with quasi-diplomatic privileges, including the right to fly Red China's five-star flag over its headquarters...
...year. In exchange for such Soviet goods as coal, cellulose, manganese and oil, the Germans bowed to the Soviet request for such useful (but officially "nonstrategic") West German products as mining and steel equipment, machine tools, heavy forges. The Soviets also won the right to establish a regular trade mission (estimated staff: 60) in Cologne, though the West Germans fended off Russian demands for consulates in major cities. The Soviet "concession" in exchange: a verbal promise to give "benevolent" consideration to the repatriation of all Germans (and their families) who held citizenship before June 22, 1941, the day Hitler invaded...
...kind of nice fresh breath of carbon monoxide. Beyond talking miles too long (he should never stray beyond nightclub limits), his current great faults are too much smugness and too little showmanship. He could be more outrageous if he were less obviously pleased with his manner and his mission, if he did not wait for laughs and even join in them. The danger with anybody as much commentator as jokester is that the mocking will become the messianic; already there is an atmosphere in the audience of followers rather than fans...