Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, as London's Economist soberly noted last week, "by the time he got it home, Mr. Macmillan's diplomatic luggage was pretty light." In the face of French, German and U.S. skepticism, Macmillan had dropped one pet concept after another. In the beginning the British press, taking its cue from the Macmillan-Khrushchev communiqué which mentioned a possible limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military...
...ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told privately: Iraq was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact...
From Baghdad each day, the nation is treated by television to a noisy assizes when a fanatic army colonel, Fadhil Mahdawi, rants against the "traitors" in the dock. Press censorship is now in the hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...
...press conference last week, Kassem commiserated with an editor whose offices had been smashed by Red-led street mobs. "People should not have done that," mused General Kassem. "They should have left matters in the hands of the law. But the revolution is a fire, and in this fire both the dry and the wet burn." It was a metaphor to ponder...
Striding one afternoon last week into the gilded Salle des Fêtes of the Elysée Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France...