Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fruits of Victory. If Israelis could accept "assumptions" which were widely approved, instead of gun positions held in defiance of U.N. resolutions, they would not come out of their retreat at all badly...
...Council does retain direction of the Combined Charities Drive, it should, profiting from this year's example, exercise far more caution in the selection of a chairman. The Council has generally shown itself lacking in backbone, but its retreat before the threat of resignation by this year's leader was ignominious. To avoid such unfortunate, if not degrading incidents, in the future, the Council should screen its potential agents with care, and exercise a firm control over his activities once he has been appointed. It is now too late to remedy the failure of the 1957 campaign, but there...
...sincere and general feeling. The order was given to put a quick end to the political manifestation springing from the student body. And the "forces of order," tommy guns in hand, entered the confines of the university, striking the students with the butts of their guns, forcing them to retreat into the classrooms (several students, fleeing the police, were able to take refuge in a class for foreign students where they felt fairly safe, knowing that the police would be hesitant to make an appearance in the face of so many foreign witnesses.) This outrageous violation of the university grounds...
...Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel will defy the world. Said an Israeli spokesman: "We are down to rock bottom. Our stand is vital for Israel's security and there is no further room for retreat...
This was a long retreat for a party that fought EDC, denounced conscription, called for "freedom from alliances," played to German desires for reunification at the expense of Western allegiance, and has long regarded the U.S. with sulky suspicion while displaying a romantic affinity for Nehrunian neutralism. Ollenhauer even hopes, on his forthcoming U.S. trip, to break Adenauer's monopoly on U.S. affections...