Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Djakarta (where the Times of Indonesia had declared only a few weeks earlier: "That man should be kept out of here, by force if necessary") Dulles' car was heckled by youths who cried, "Down with SEATO!" But when he left, after inviting Prime Minister Achmed Soekarno to visit the U.S., most Indonesian circles -even the Times-seemed to feel that his visit was eminently successful...
Last week France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, returning from the SEATO meeting in Karachi, called on Nasser to ask for his cooperation in ending France's agony in North Africa. Cairo newspapers were elated and inflated by the visit of so important a Western statesman on such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare...
...about to plunge into uncertain waters, first tests the temperature with an exploratory toe. Last week, playing the part of an affably pudgy big toe, Soviet ex-Premier Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov arrived in London to test the temperature of British hospitality as diplomatic advance man for the forthcoming visit of Communist Bigwigs Bulganin and Khrushchev...
...Nice. In attempting to isolate Malenkov, British authority seemed as fearful of too much friendliness as it was of too little. As the visiting Russian, nattily turned out in a light blue topcoat, emerged into Winsley Street after a visit to the British Electricity Authority headquarters, a surging crowd was gathered in the street to see him. Scores of female garmentworkers hung out of the windows across the street to catch a glimpse. When Malenkov raised his hand and grinned his broadest, the walls echoed with a welcoming cheer. "He was so clean-cut," one sewing-machine operator told...
...British press has taken to calling them). Last week Britain's highest Roman Catholic prelate, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, in a pastoral letter read in all Roman Catholic churches in England and Wales, urged British Catholics to "act with restraint and dignity" during the Russians' visit. but to set aside a day of prayer for Christians persecuted behind the Iron Curtain...