Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lioyd told the House of Commons that talks in London with Greek and Turkish foreign ministers on an agreement on Cyprus were going well. Reliable informants predicted a three-power conference to put the final touches on the accord would open in London Monday or Tuesday...
...that same spirit in the week of stiffened attitudes that Secretary Dulles left the White House, drove to the MATS Terminal at the Washington National Airport, flew off to Paris. There he, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano met, talked, and "reaffirmed the determination of their governments to maintain their position and their rights with respect to Berlin...
...West Berlin into a "free city," nobody knew what else the U.S. thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead of rejecting the Soviet ultimatum outright...
...Greek side definite progress has been made towards a solution. Enosis has been dropped and an independent Cyprus is now being talked of both by the Greek Government and by Archbishop Makarios. The repeated talks between Selwyn Lloyd and premier Karamanlis certainly represent progress over the situation a short three years ago when diplomatic relations were all but terminated between Athens and London. In the UN five years ago Greece failed to get the Cyprus item on the agenda for debate, and they were talking of enosis. Last year the Greek resolution for self-determination got a majority...
...Victims of Rapacki fever assume that the West should show itself ready to make painful sacrifices, as if a German settlement and some form of disengagement would actually "relieve tensions." But against the nebulous idea that a vacuum or a buffer contributes to peace, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd argued cogently last week: "It may well be that the world is a very much safer place if in critical areas there is a direct confrontation of the major parties and not an area of uncertainty...