Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rose to tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided...
Said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd: "I cannot imagine how they expect business to be done in this way ... to deliver a violent attack on the U.S." Said Rome's independent-center Momenta-Sera: "Everything shows Moscow's intention is to increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful...
...theory, Dulles was present only as an "observer," because the U.S. is not a member, and to join the Baghdad grouping outright would antagonize Israel and Saudi Arabia. In reality, as the pact members recognized, only Dulles could save the meeting from failure and unseemly bickering. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd quickly made clear that Britain was sympathetic to the area members' pleas, but could offer no more help just now. It was up to Dulles...
...area members stilled their differences in a communique expressing "satisfaction" with the U.S. position. Even Iraq's Nuri asSaid, who had gone to Ankara threatening to withdraw Iraq from the pact unless he got its backing for a Palestine solution, was persuaded by Dulles and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd not to raise the issue publicly. As the delegates departed, an Iraqi aide conceded: "We are much happier than we were, thanks to Mr. Dulles." John Foster Dulles flew home with accomplishment recorded...
...cheering throng of Turkish Cypriots streamed through Nicosia's ancient walled Turkish quarter one morning last week. They were celebrating a report from Ankara, where Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was conferring with Turkey's Premier Menderes and Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots...