Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broader sweep of diplomacy Ike concentrated on patching up and cleaning up the Western alliance. Throughout the despair of Hungary-Egypt, he had taken his stand on the ramparts of moral law and the U.N. (TIME, Nov. 12), and now these were the ramparts behind which the free world could most safely range itself to face down the new Soviet threat...
...Unflagging Violence." Budapesters reaching the Austrian border say that the critical day was the day (Nov. 7) the U.N. debate on Hungary was postponed. Said o'ne: "Up to that time people had been watching from rooftops hoping to see U.S. planes arriving. After that everybody just quit." Some 1,500 rebels holding out in the ruins of the Royal Palace high on Buda Hill surrendered a highly defensible position. After a moving appeal for help from President Eisenhower the day after election ("If during his presidency he would stand by the oppressed, a blessing shall fall...
...chief fear was not the war of "rocket weapons" and other "modern and terrible means" that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin threatened against Great Britain and France (TIME, Nov. 12). This was taken to be crude and nasty propaganda. The fear was of a limited war in the Middle East, of the kind Soviet Russia likes: perhaps without any Russian soldiers, but instigated and supplied by the Russians...
...took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About 1 p.m. I told the commander he must take Abu Aweigila before 5 and darkness. I told...
...sudden action the British and French had to act too swiftly for "the inevitably cumbrous processes" of the U.N. But the British had known of the Israelis' in tentions earlier, with France doing most of the dirty work in linking the three nations in conspiracy (TIME, Nov...