Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Invited his Cabinet to a sport-shirt Cabinet meeting and picnic at Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat near Thurmont...
...have received their independence in the past generation except the 20 million in French (and Spanish) North Africa. Of the world's 315 million Moslems, few outside the Iron Curtain remain "dependent peoples"; those few are mostly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Fanned by France's retreat in Indo-China, by Britain's from Iran...
Some kind of French retreat seems inevitable in North Africa, as it was in Indo-China. The question is whether it will be made in good order. "We must leave," said one French settler. "It could still be done today, gradually and without catastrophe. True, some French colonists may lose their estates. But if things go on as they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing...
...gone. Nonetheless, the rebels stood their ground. Next day one of them, onetime Guards Major Edward Legge-Bourke, formally quit the Tory Party and said he would sit as an Independent. "From Palestine, from Burma, from India, from Persia, from the Sudan and now from Egypt the ignominious retreat has gone on," the major cried. "Where next are we to be pushed from?" Despite all the bluster from the rear, the Tories should be able to get a majority for a Suez agreement. They can count on heavy support from the Socialists, who first proposed evacuation eight years...
Said Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge last week: '"We have reached a position where the retreat from the July, 1953 levels has been stopped . . . where the economy is catching its breath for a new advance." As good omens for the future he listed the longer work week, the strength of retail buying, the stability of total output. Said Hauge: "The recession-call it whatever you want-is over...