Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool of the early morning, S.S. President Jackson moved into Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia...
Britons, when asked to remember Geneva, are more inclined to remember Budapest. To the government, as to London's conservative Daily Telegraph, the Bulganin note was designed for propaganda rather than negotiations, "a guided missive . . . aimed at Downing Street but designed to affect millions everywhere." Nonetheless, Prime Minister Macmillan took it seriously enough to make it the subject of two Cabinet meetings and a private talk with Sir Winston Churchill...
...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
Clearly angered by the questions, Moscow abandoned its sweet reassurances and got off a truculent note to Bonn. Unless West Germany is reconciled to winding up as "one big cemetery," warned the Russians, she, too, had better refuse to accept any NATO atomic bases. What was more, there could be no serious talk of German reunification unless Adenauer abandoned his idea of acquiring tactical atomic weapons for his new army...
...Duchess of Windsor, with whom she has been feuding for the past three years. Said Elsa at this moment in history: "I once wrote the duchess that we were both strong personalities, and almost a law unto ourselves." Meeting history and the inner law, Elsa sent a conciliatory note to the duchess. The duchess responded by inviting Elsa to cocktails in her shipboard suite. Said Elsa, "She was charming; she can be very charming. The duke is always charming...