Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admiral Holloway agreed to this odd request, shook Shehab's hand, and then added, to Shehab's puzzlement: "Lord Mountbatten [Britain's First Sea Lord] asked me to send his best wishes...
...week's end Hussein announced that he had appealed to the U.S. to send troops to help him in a battle of survival against Syria and Egypt and "agents of international Communism," and talked of marching northward into Iraq to reverse the revolution. But Prime Minister Macmillan had made it clear that the British had sent the Red Devils to protect Hussein, King of Jordan, not Hussein, the head of the now-dissolved Arab Union with Iraq...
...Secretary-General's position. The U.S., he said, had thrown the work of the U.N. "into the wastebasket" while still "singing eulogies to the group." Under the circumstances, said he piously, "no self-respecting state in Asia or Africa, or Europe for that matter, will agree to send troops to pursue the purposes which the American troops are supposed to seek in Lebanon." What was the U.S. doing but resorting to Hitler's "big lie"? Retorted the U.S.'s Lodge acidly: "I must defer to Mr. Sobolev in the knowledge of Adolf Hitler, because his government...
...town of Puriales and on four successive days brought out the eleven marines and 18 sailors kidnaped three weeks ago on a bus outside the Guantánamo naval base. The play for U.S. good will was frank. Said the rebel commander in Puriales: "If the admiral wants to send you into battle in Lebanon, we don't want to hold you back...
BRITISH-SOVIET DEAL will send London's Courtaulds, the textile giant, to Russia to supervise construction of a major synthetics plant. Courtaulds will also supply plant with machinery, will get "several million British pounds" from deal...