Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet the Arabs, Russia's Izvestia declared that the Soviet Union would never think of alienating its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...
Almost as a side thought, Nikita Khrushchev interrupted his word war for Berlin to threaten the Shah of Iran for "insulting" the Soviet Union. The effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared...
...primate, than for the London agreement (,'TIME. March 2) that will within the year turn the island from a British crown colony into an independent republic. In their whitewashed coffee shops Greek Cypriots frowned at Article 22 of the agreement, which forbids them ever again to demand enosis (union with Greece). "We shall have to hear about it from the mouth of Makarios," said one coffee drinker. "From him we shall learn if it is good...
Ironically, Nyasaland, poorest of the federation's three territories, has the most to gain from the union. It has the smallest (8,000) white minority, all but lost among 2,700,000 blacks. Last July the demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda returned from self-imposed, 40-year exile to cry "To hell with federation" and proclaim himself "extremist of the extremists." Before his oratory, moderate African leaders fell back...
...ever agreed to the idea. The Spectator took Britain to task for bundling Nyasaland "huggermugger into an unwilling association with the Rhodesias." The Daily Mirror demanded that the government make it absolutely clear that Britain would never abandon the Nyasas "to the control of local whites," lest one more Union of South Africa be born...