Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Credibility Gap. There are plenty of reasons for the British disenchantment with Wilson: the turndown of Britain's application to the Common Market, Britain's shrinking role as a world power, the retreat from East of Suez, austerity at home and the feeling that Wilson has equivocated in his statements to the country-a Wilsonian credibility gap that is equal to Lyndon Johnson's. Wilson has heatedly denounced "the defeatist cries, the moaning minnies, the wet editorials," but he seems unable to halt his rapid slide. A new national poll released last week...
...year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Suez crisis, Pearson abandoned his brilliant diplomatic career to assume the leadership of the recently defeated Liberal Party. Within two months he had led his party into unprecedented political catastrophe. The Conservatives under John Diefenbaker achieved the most one-sided election victory in Canadian history, and Pearson became the leader of a tiny Opposition...
...travel by ship to the U.S., go by rail across the country, and on ships again to its final destination. The savings in time would be significant: 28 days from Japan to Europe by way of the land bridge v. 44 days on an all-ship transit through the Suez Canal...
...sizable chunk of the West's defense capability. A succession of budgetary cutbacks, including four in the past two years, has stretched its forces ever thinner. But, as recently as last summer, Whitehall's defense planners referred to the notion of pulling back from east of Suez as "long term" - a decade away, perhaps...
There were many minor technical flaws in The Most Dangerous Game, such as technicians and cameras on camera, which probably could have been ironed out if the game had continued. However, it is now off the air, because the second simulation, which was to be the Suez crisis, was not ready in time for the television staff to prepare the show...