Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easily. Four and a half hours were spent around a green-draped table in the Anahtora Palace. Another conference was held the following day. The Greeks argued for liberal self-government for Cyprus that would "unite Cypriots, not divide them," and shied away from the British concept of "partnership" (Greece, Turkey and Britain all to have a voice in governing the island), and separate assemblies for Turkish and Greek Cypriots, because this seemed too close to the partition demanded by Turkey. Besides, argued the Greeks, such a plan would freeze into law the hostility between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that...
...NEWS), and the U.S. promised to pull its troops out of Lebanon if the government so requested. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles began the week in London at a conference of remaining Baghdad Pact members, and after two phone calls to the President, committed the U.S. to "full partnership" to help Britain, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran "maintain collective security to resist aggression direct and indirect." At midweek Dulles was back in Washington to define U.S. summit conference aims at his press conference (see below), was off again this week for Brazil. He all but crisscrossed with Good-Will Ambassador...
Many U.S. firms have discovered that the best and safest method is to buy a partnership in a European firm. Faced with much stiffer competition in the common market, European manufacturers are eager to get U.S. cash and technical know-how to help them meet it. A U.S. firm, on the other hand, can profit from its European partner's intimate knowledge of his market and area...
...centuries-old relationship between London and Paris has had more bad than good moments, and even in its present phase of partnership is marked by each nation's fear that the other will become either too strong-or too weak. For the past five months London has been eying Paris with especial nervousness. As senior man in office, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had every right to expect that new Premier de Gaulle should make the first visit to him in London. Instead, last week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General...
Frozen Difference. But Labor did have one grave objection to the "partnership" plan: to provide for separate assemblies of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, and to invite both the Turkish and Greek governments to share a kind of condominium with Britain was to freeze differences into a permanent mold, rather than to let them work themselves out. Perhaps for this reason, the Turks, though rejecting the plan, found it reconcilable with their cries of partition. The Greeks for the same reason were considerably upset. On Cyprus, Colonel Grivas issued a defiant leaflet distributed by boys on bicycles. It described Foot...