Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viscount Hailsham, Tory leader in the House of Lords and sometime (1929) president of the Oxford Union, sternly denounced this sort of "government by undergraduate resolution," compared it to the pacifist days of 1933 when the Union overwhelmingly voted that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
Tiny, bustling Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) is the most stable of all Arab countries, with sturdier traditions of literacy, representative government, religious tolerance and international trade than any of its neighbors. But the announcement of the Syrian-Egyptian union and President Nasser's dramatic visit to Damascus-only a two-hour drive from Beirut-has had an explosive effect among the half of Lebanon's population who are Moslems. A delegation headed by ex-Premier Abdullah el Yafi, leader of the opposition, rushed to Damascus to call on Nasser and extend its congratulations. An estimated...
...Maronite rite, has accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine, Moslems have become increasingly dominated by a persecution complex. Going to Damascus has become a deliberate act of defiance against the government of Chamoun and his 75-year-old, waterpipe-smoking Premier, Sami Solh. "O Chamoun, Lebanon must join the Arab Union!" chanted thousands of Lebanese last week in Damascus, as Nasser beamed down from his balcony. Replied Nasser: "As I see my brothers from sister Lebanon standing side by side with their brothers from the region of Syria and the region of Egypt, I feel I am witnessing the return of matters...
With that went glimmering the last faint hope of settling the rebellion peacefully. Castro, in effect, had already rejected the Roman Catholic Church's proposal for a government of national union, declaring that "no self-respecting Cuban could sit in Batista's Cabinet," and the church-supported Conciliation Commission collapsed in futility...
...argument that the good old colonial days were over and, what is more, never were that good. Most of the original settlers, the News cheerfully observed, ''would have sold their British heritage for a bottle of rum." Now, the editorial continued, "H.M.S. Bermuda comes to wave the Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British immigrants (Noel Coward...