Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter of resignation Hauge summed up the Administration economic philosophy that he himself helped to mold over the past six years. "You have brought a badly needed re-emphasis of some plain but oft-obscured truths," he wrote to Ike. "You have...
...refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached the general for this, and for stationing 23 tanks on the approaches to the city, as if to guard it against the marines. "Where did these tanks come from?" Chamoun asked Shehab, who had in the past pleaded that he was powerless to chase the rebels to their lair. There was no answer...
...vague and emotional concept of Arab unity, influenced by 19th century European nationalism, held that the Arabic language, Arab ways, and a common past of glorious medieval empire should unite 70 million Arabs from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The intellectuals' enthusiasm sparked a political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath...
Flood Tide. For a long time the West was divided and confused in its response to Nasser. It recognized justice in Arab resentment against past foreign domination; it felt sheepish about some of its Arab allies (though few are as feudal as Nasser's partner, the Imam of Yemen, and Nasser himself has yet to allow democracy). The West has incurred Arab hate by its Israeli policy. It also acknowledged Nasser's genuine popularity, and hesitated to risk a showdown. With Iraq's abrupt fall, there was no longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle...
...most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...