Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, for proving that a leader can still be both right and forceful...
Behind Dwight Eisenhower were the long, tiring campaign and the weeks of international strain. Ahead were the demands of rebuilding the Western alliance, a visit from India's Prime Minister Nehru, the inauguration ceremonies and the State of the Union message. In Augusta last week the President of the U.S. prepared for what lay ahead by relaxing from what lay behind...
...Wolf. Said Bevan: "It is believed in France that the French [government] knew about the Israeli intention. If the French knew, did they tell the British government? The fact is that all these long telephone conversations and conferences between M. Guy Mollet, M. Pineau and the Prime Minister are intelligible only on the assumption that something was being cooked up." Bevan had his own picturesque fable for the situation. "Did Marianne take John Bull to an unknown rendezvous? Did Marianne say to John Bull that there was a forest fire going to start, and did John Bull then...
...Bevan, "the whole fabric of the government's case falls to the ground." The main theme of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's defense was to show that while "it is true that we were well aware of the possibility of trouble," there was no secret agreement between Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Guy Mollet and David Ben-Gurion over the timing of their respective attacks on Egypt, and that there was neither deceit nor fraud in Eden's declared objective of "separating the combatants" and "removing the risk to free passage of the canal...
...Tory Randolph Churchill, it was clear that Eden, like the Suez forces, was planning a "phased withdrawal" from politics. But the lack of an undisputed successor in the true-blue Tory line made this difficult at the moment: the closest rivals were the acting Prime Minister, Richard A. Butler, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan-Rab Butler's claims to be first in line could not be lightly set aside, but some of the Tories most desirous of a change did not want to change to him, and it was to Butler's interest to keep Eden...