Word: object
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy of ill will would defeat our object," wrote Stevenson. "And in politics it is never wise to leave the opposition with no loophole of escape from an untenable position." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell emphasized that the only kind of military action he would accept must not be unilateral, but under the United Nations...
...have just read "Another Country Heard From" in your July 16 issue. No human or divine law can give Turkey's totalitarian-minded Adnan Menderes the prerogative to object on grounds of security to self-determination rights being granted to 400,000 people living on an island more than 40 miles off Turkish shores. By the same, strange logic, suggestive of Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum dogma, France should object to the geographical proximity of the British Isles and the U.S.S.R. to Turkish sovereignty over the Dardanelles...
Moderate Findings. Prison officials flatly denied any willful mistreatment or brutality. Said huge, knife-scarred Deputy Warden Doyle Smith, object of many of the charges: "I've never whipped a prisoner, but you have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...
...Land. It all began in 1951, when a few Navy ships dropped anchor in the lovely Bay of Naples. Object: to form the American headquarters for NATO South, which in wartime would command the allied fighting forces of southern Europe but in peacetime would have virtually nothing to do (since each NATO country exercises direct command of its own forces). Soon Navy wives and children also dropped anchor in Naples, began appearing on shipboard at mealtime. NATO South's skipper, Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, decided that the families were rocking the boat, shifted his headquarters to dry land...
...most audible American voice on Indian affairs, onetime U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles, sometimes sounds as if the chief object of U.S. foreign and domestic policy should be to make the U.S. over to something Nehru would find acceptable. Somewhere beyond this is a view, often expressed on the clubwomen's circuit, that if only Nehru knew Americans better he would understand them. The difficulty with this notion is that Nehru himself knows all he wants to know about the U.S. and understands what he wants to understand about the U.S. It is bootless to measure Nehru as a friend...