Word: quarreling
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...formal state banquet there were toasts in pomegranate juice, and Marshal Bulganin eagerly grasped the chance to align Russia behind Afghanistan in its quarrel with the West's good friend, Pakistan. He had already nosily sided with India against Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. Now he insisted that it was only just for some 6,000,000 Pathan tribesmen and their hill country in West Pakistan should be severed from Pakistan, turned into the state of Pakhtoonistan and joined with the Afghan state. Premier Daoud appeared delighted...
Libervals Y. Nationalists. The quarrel, formless at first, sharpened in recent weeks, forcing most Argentines to choose sides. By early last week the lineups were fairly well defined...
...many Britons, even among those who affect not to care a fig whether the young Princess marries her airman or not, found themselves caught up in it: they professed themselves sated with it, but they could not escape it. Like polite weekend guests unwillingly trapped in a family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President...
...course they were choosing instead was not clear. In their minds, the Saarlanders were choosing reunion with their native Germany, though they had no chance of such a choice. Actually, they were choosing to begin a long and tortuous quarrel within the Western family. France warned in advance that if the Saar voted nein, French control would go on as before. Sincere men in Paris and Bonn had done their best, but now the old wound was open and throbbing again...
...Saar. They are a prelude to decision: next week the Saar's 960,000 citizens will freely vote, ja or nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would be "Europeanized," i.e., granted political autonomy under the new seven-nation Western European Union, and continued...