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...whole thing points to an obvious British-and-French inspired pretext for snatching Suez. Even President Eisenhower seems not to be taken in, which reveals how bald the scheme is. It amounts to the most anachronistic type of diplomacy running--the old gun-boat grab, and an inordinantly blatant specimen at that...
...carefully avoid provoking the suspicious, disgruntled Liberal majority. In his inaugural address last week, he sounded more liberal than the Liberals, promising to end "feudalism, absentee-landlordism and bossism," and declaring that the time had come "to give land to many ... to take away from our dialectical revolutionaries any pretext for their adventures...
...Republican People's Party, had trouble taking a foot-first dive at the resort island of Heybeli near Istanbul. His plunging technique was fine, but cops, who keep close track of Inönü soon moved in to break up the crowd of onlookers. The ludicrous pretext for their action: Turkey's longtime (1938-50) President Inönü and his fellow frolickers looked suspiciously like a political demonstration, barred (except for 45 days prior to general elections) under one of Turkey's oppressive new laws...
...also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood in his wife's veins.* Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous-but it gave Adlai Stevenson, if elected, a perfect out to bar Happy from his Cabinet on the pretext of no nepotic appointments. As matters stood, all that Candidate Stevenson had to say to Candidate Chandler about their family ties was: "I'm impressed...
...enormous claims for back wages, charged fantastic tax assessments, added on phony claims for payment of insurance debts actually paid years before to the Nationalists. Starr's land company lost all its undeveloped land to nationalization, was stripped of 200 rented houses in one grab on the pretext that the titles were invalid. As business foundered, each dismissed employee had to be paid off in U.S. dollars; once Manager Miner was jailed for ten days when U.S. currency restrictions held up the necessary cash. To top it off, the Communists calculated interest on unpaid claims at 1½%, compounded...