Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigar plays the warrior's neighbor--an old fishwife of a man--and he is in his element. His senile craftiness is equalled only by his engagingly simpleminded delight in the machinations of others...
...Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur, Pearson made a prescient speech that was all but ignored: "The days of relatively easy and automatic political relations with our neighbor are, I think, over." He was talking as much to Canadians as Americans, and urging a mutual realization that with a next-door view, Canada could speak up to-and for-U.S. leadership more usefully if its voice was more than merely an echo...
...Diefenbaker Government was entitled, because of its vast popular vote, to an unhampered right to accomplish its promises. But when Diefenbaker proved surprisingly weak in office, moody and suspicious of his colleagues and subordinates, embroiling Canada with its old friend Britain over the Common Market and antagonizing its U.S. neighbor by its waffling on defense, Pearson satisfied himself that the Diefenbaker Government "has done a terrible job. These are mistakes the Government has made by itself. We didn't maneuver the Government into them...
...though there turned out to be gold (and iron) in Mauritania's sands, it has become increasingly plain that Morocco's pragmatic young King Hassan II does not share his father's fervent faith in a "Greater Morocco" and realizes, in any case, that its big neighbor is here to stay. Moreover, the King now has sufficient political strength to resist pressure from the nationalist Istiqlal Party, most dogged advocate of Mauritania's annexation. Last month, he decided to repatriate four prominent Mauritanian exiles who had been leading the campaign against their country, from Morocco...
...Brunei revolt at last gave the Philippines and Indonesia, for different reasons, an excuse to display their opposition to the scheme. Oblivious to Malaya's success against Red infiltration, the Philippines feared that leftists would ultimately take over the new nation, thus putting a Communist neighbor right on their doorstep. Dusting off an old claim to North Borneo, the Philippines maintained that in 1878 the Sultan of Sulu had only "leased," not sold, the territory to the British. London stiffly rejected the Filipino claim to the region...