Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spike. The radio announcer was reading from next day's issue of Pravda. In June, Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison had challenged Pravda to print, in full, an appeal from him to the Russian people (TIME, July 9). After keeping the Morrison statement on the spike for a while, Pravda last week printed it. The statement was also printed in other Russian papers, giving it a circulation well up in the millions...
This week, Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison rose in the House of Commons, announced what amounted to a triumph for Conciliator Harriman: the British government was prepared to send a new oil mission to Teheran, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, hard-hitting Socialist industrialist and Minister of Raw Materials...
...Added Morrison in a noteworthy gesture of conciliation: "We have every sympathy with the natural desire of the Persian people to control their own mineral resources. . . What we have asked is that agreements freely entered into . . . should not be broken unilaterally...
Intolerable Tailtwister. Ever since her spanking defeat by Israel three years ago, Egypt, despite repeated protests, has stopped all vessels moving through the Suez Canal that might be going to Israeli ports. When the Labor government's Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, responding to a Tory question, revealed the details of this incident last week, Commons exploded. Coming on top of Britain's humiliation in Iran, it seemed a tailtwister that the British lion did not have to suffer in silence. Asked the Tories' second-in-command, Anthony Eden: "Is not the real lesson of all this that...
There was a catch to the Pravda offer. Morrison would have to guarantee that Pravda's reply would be carried in full in the British press. "Pravda assumes that I can negotiate on behalf of the British press and pretty well tell them how to use their space," said Morrison. "I can't. Our press is free." But he allowed himself a chuckle over Pravda's rare display of humor. "I am all for a bit of humor," said he. "More of it would do good behind the Iron Curtain...