Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden was calm and forceful. Unknown to the Laborites, he had got a firm U.S. commitment to participate in the canal users' association, had finished penciling the proposal into his speech only minutes before. Quietly, he reviewed the history of the unsuccessful Menzies' mission to Cairo, then sprang...
From legionnaires who one day later approved continuation of the peacetime draft he drew scattered applause by urging that "it is the national will . . . that the draft be ended at the earliest possible moment with the national safety." Some Democratic strategists hoped that Stevenson's end-the-draft call...
What of Stevenson's proposal for an early end to the draft? "I realize that it is always tempting to tell the voters there is an easy way to meet difficult problems . . . But this is no time to suggest to our friends or our possible opponents abroad that America...
Turning to Stevenson's proposal that the U.S. should stop testing hydrogen bombs if other nations would agree, Nixon said: "I respectfully submit that for us to have followed this advice would have been not only naive but dangerous to our national security. To have taken such action would...
Jamil M. Baroody, the brooding, hot-tempered Lebanese who was Saudi Arabia's unofficial observer at the conference, did not deny that slavery existed in Arabia. "Slaves," he snorted. "What are slaves? It is better to call them servants or stewards. They have a good life. They call their...