Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line of Retreat. Arriving in Istanbul this week, Loy Henderson hurried into a series of hours-long conferences with the Turks, Iranians and the Arab monarchs. In the intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
...Vichy government gave the Nazis permission to let German aircraft use Syrian bases. In a savage, month-long campaign, British and Free French forces (who began the invasion with the proclaimed intention of giving Syria independence) overwhelmed 35,000 stubborn Vichy troops. The Free French almost immediately began to retreat from their promises of freedom, but France's wartime weakness gave her old Mideast rival Britain an irresistible opportunity. In 1945, when rioting broke out in Damascus, Winston Churchill compelled the French to confine their troops in Syria to barracks. Within two months Syria was for all practical purposes...
...nonetheless, a grudging retreat, and its course was mined with restrictions that not only invited continued criticism from the press but limited the scope and effectiveness of the reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at least inevitable. No cameramen-for press, newsreel or TV-will be allowed into China (although reporters may carry cameras). Representation will be limited to the big newspapers, magazines, wire services and broadcasting companies that 1) can now afford to maintain one "fulltime American correspondent overseas" and 2) are prepared to send one staffer for "six months or longer" to China...
...rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists and cartoonists who only a few weeks before had been denouncing the Senate's weak bill were now denouncing the Republicans for opposing it (see cartoons). Liberal Northern Democrats, let off the hook by the retreat of the N.A.A.C.P., the A.D.A., et al, delightedly accepted the Senate bill and the unexpected opportunity to avoid a North-South Democratic Party split...
...Charleston. Hobcaw was nature's Xanadu, a game hunter's paradise especially famed for its massed armadas of ducks. Toward the end of his book, getting ahead of his story, Bernard Baruch tells with dramatic relish and glowing pride of F.D.R.'s month-long recuperative retreat at Hobcaw in the spring...