Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help in subduing the rebellious and elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
Best Hope of Peace. For four days Dulles met with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, and his own representatives from NATO capitals (he had already talked with Canada's new Prime Minister Diefenbaker-TIME, Aug. 5). In the forefront of Dulles' thinking, as he doodled, argued and explained in the musty committee chambers of Lancaster House, was this line of reasoning: 1) no nation that keenly feels itself in danger of attack is likely to reduce its arms; 2) with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space...
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd faced the House of Commons with an air at once portentous and embarrassed: for the second time in a year British armed forces were on the shooting move in the Middle East. At the request of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, he said. British forces were being called upon to help put down a revolt in the desert...
Divorced. By John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, 52, Britain's Foreign Secretary (the first Cabinet Minister to obtain a divorce while in office without having to resign): Elizabeth Marshall Lloyd, 29, his former secretary; after six years of marriage (two of separation), one child; grounds: adultery, in an uncontested action; in London...
...very, very happy to be here," said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, as he stepped off his plane into Karachi's 104° heat. Only seven months ago, demonstrating in Karachi's streets, Pakistanis were cursing the name of Britain, Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid was declaring Iraq would boycott any meeting of the Baghdad Pact attended by Britain, and just about everyone was saying that the Baghdad Pact was dead. But last week as the five members of the Baghdad Pact (Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran) met for the first time since the British...