Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago by default-possession of Formosa and membership in the U.N. Even Britain, which had insisted on Red China's right to both, even while Britons were being killed in Korea, decided last week to side with the U.S.-at least for the present. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison told the House of Commons: "In view of [Red China's] persistence in behavior which is inconsistent with the purpose and principles of the United Nations Charter ... consideration of this question should be postponed...
Eden, explained that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...
...course of a speech to British newspapermen, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison saw a nice chance to twist the ring in Pravda's nose. "I should feel more hopeful for the future," said Morrison, "if our Prime Minister or I were asked for an exclusive interview with Pravda, and if we could then be sure that our words would be reproduced . . . faithfully . . . Now, Pravda, what about...
...first, Morrison's challenge struck only the conditioned reflex. "... The columns of Soviet papers and magazines," grunted Radio Moscow, "... are closed to war propaganda." But, after dabbling a bit in the bourgeois luxury of second thought, the Russians changed their minds and picked up Herbert Morrison's dare...
...Very well," said Pravda (which is Russian for truth) on its front page one day last week, "Pravda is ready to give space to Mr. Morrison's words, which will certainly be reproduced exactly and fully ... Of course, Pravda's circulation will suffer, but Pravda is willing to make this sacrifice...