Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wish to Continue. The only specific agreement reached at the conference reflected this fact. Britain agreed to transfer its fine Trincomalee naval anchorage and R.A.F. base at Katunayaka to Ceylon. In return, Ceylon offered to maintain there for the British "certain facilities enjoyed at present for communications, movements and storage." Britain offered to help Ceylon train its armed forces, and Ceylon accepted. For the British, this constituted a graceful retreat. And for the newest Prime Minister, Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike, who rode to office last April shouting demands that the British get out, it was a sensible compromise...
...State Department now notes privately that the current British Laborite attack on Eden's get-tough policy may help promote the necessary talks; State also believes that talks would be helped along by the return of Cypriot Political Leader Archbishop Makarios from exile. Should this bring about the transfer of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the island's tough little Governor, State would not object...
Spring Hill College, a 126-year-old Jesuit institution in Mobile, Ala., this week graduated a Negro for the first time in its history. The graduate: Mrs. Fannie Motley, 30, a transfer student from the Alabama State College for Negroes...
Because of this unexpected first year result, the Service plans to extend the X-ray survey to all entering students, including transfer, next year, Dunning said...
...State John Foster Dulles first declared that he had predicted it, then suggested that the Russians might not go through with it, that even if they did, no one should let his guard down, ended by arguing that the Soviet striking power might even be increased by the transfer of these men from the armed forces to factories. A newsman demanded whether Dulles would rather these men stayed in the army. Said Dulles: "I would rather have them standing around doing guard duty than making atomic bombs...