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Gamal Abdel Nasser, no longer talking about "a role wandering the Arab world looking for a hero," last week issued a conciliatory statement designed to show that he 1) is not a Russian pawn, 2) is willing to respect international law (though he did not mention the Suez Canal) and 3) has no ambitions to dominate an Arab empire. Excerpts...
...will not become the stooge or satellite or pawn or hireling of anybody. Just as Egypt is determined to have political independence, so also Egypt is determined to have and maintain ideological independence from all foreign ideologies such as Marxism, fascism, racism, colonialism, imperialism and atheism, all of which, incidentally, are European in origin...
Gregory does his academic best to analyze the major-leaguer, to understand him both "as an artist and as a business asset." The measure of Professor Gregory's success is that his hero remains a baseball player, a big man playing a boy's game, an economic pawn hemmed in by a code of law that is "like an old lady's will amended by a maze of codicils...
Ancient History: As early as the 15th century B.C., Greeks settled Cyprus, came in successive waves for hundreds of years. A much-badgered pawn of empires, Cyprus was conquered by Sargon II, and Darius before Alexander the Great captured it m 333 B.C. Later it became Roman. But for centuries after the division of the Roman Empire, Cyprus was subject chiefly to the rule of the Byzantine Empire, which was culturally if not politically Greek. The Ottoman Turks, who conquered Constantinople in 1453, began their 300-year rule of Cyprus in 1570-71. Greece, itself conquered by the Ottomans...
Lausche explained that he is running in Ohio's presidential primary only "with the purpose of preventing political bosses of Ohio from gaining control of the Ohio delegaton and then using it as a pawn or a mess of pottage to trade for spoils and patronage at the national convention...