Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a few days off, but Eden stubbornly drove himself on, taking more and more of the Suez work load himself, sweeping aside any suggestion that he should delegate more work to other Cabinet members. But his way had failed, and the penalties of a botched job were upon...
Crowding Troubles. Early last week, Eden drove back to London from a weekend at Chequers. Everything seemed to crowd in upon him. There was Commonwealth opposition: his first visitor was Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike on his way to New York to inform the U.N. Assembly of the Colombo powers' condemnation of both Britain and Russia. Eden spent 30 minutes putting Britain's case to Bandaranaike, only to have him emerge and tell reporters that the actions of Britain and France in Egypt were "not at all justified," seemed "a resurgence of the spirit of imperialism...
With this emotion-packed preface Cuban Delegate Emilio Nunez-Portuondo last week introduced into the U.N. General Assembly a resolution which, besides reiterating the U.N.'s previous demand for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, called upon the Russians "to cease the deportation of Hungarian citizens and to return promptly to their homes those who have been deported...
...Asian and African nations were coming to recognize that Russian imperialism was just as immoral as any other kind. Three weeks ago India's U.N. Delegate Krishna Menon had outraged many, including his own countrymen (see below), by voting against a resolution which called upon Hungary to admit U.N. observers. Last week, under pressure from New Delhi, hot-eyed Krishna Menon did an about-face and, together with the Ceylonese and Indonesian delegates, sponsored a resolution urging Hungary to comply with the very demand India had originally refused to support...
Crumbling Defiance. In the U.N.'s East River headquarters, this defiance of the U.N.'s will sparked an outburst of indignation. With Krishna Menon marching at their head, 21 Asian and African nations quickly introduced a resolution which called upon Britain, France and Israel to "comply forthwith" with the General Assembly's demand for immediate withdrawal from Egypt, and expressed "grave concern" that they had not already done...