Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn Dulles found Konrad Adenauer willing to appear flexible but skeptical of making any substantial concessions to Russia. In particular, Adenauer is wary of anything that smacks of "confederation,'1 the Russian scheme to link East and West Germany by loose federal institutions. Asks Adenauer scornfully: "Can fire and water confederate...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...
Also vital to Continental's scheme is its statewide saturation selling, which spreads the risk, gives the company the benefit of group insurance. Other companies have already followed Continental's lead. Mutual of Omaha is trying a similar policy in four Southern states and Fireman's Fund has just completed a trial campaign in California...
...British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval of the scheme seems assured...
...group, the EOKA faction, has demanded not merely Cypriot liberty from British rule but also union with Greece. It is not at all clear that EOKA will find even a free Cyprus acceptable. Furthermore, potential dangers to the successful working out of the proposal lie in the concurrent majority scheme itself. When the Turkish vice-president uses his veto, how will it be accepted by the Greek majority which will control two-thirds of the single-chambered legislature. It would be naive to assume that from now on life will be a Mediterranean idyll for the people of Cyprus...