Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Israel's latest answer was an almost final no, and the latest What If still loomed. In a remarkably strong statement issued at Thomasville, President Eisenhower once again urged Israel to withdraw, noted that Israel had received "the maximum assurance that it can reasonably expect at this juncture, or that can be reconciled with fairness to others." Meanwhile, the U.S. had answered a bigger question: What if armed Communism tries an overt gunpoint grab in the Middle...
...while sitting in judgment on the Middle East, was itself also being judged. The whole Middle East crisis began over British, French and Israeli disbelief in the U.N. as an effective instrument of peace and justice. When Britain and France later had to promise the U.N. to withdraw their invading armies from Egypt, that necessity only increased the anger of what used to be the U.N.'s most respectable 'supporters in those countries. They agreed to bow to the "decent opinion of mankind" as determined by a U.N. vote. But. they asked, did anything happen when Russia defied...
...sending a U.S. ship through the gulf to establish the international right of "innocent passage" raised the possibility at last of opening Israel's southern port of Elath, blockaded by Egypt since 1949, to the potentialities of Asian trade. The catch was that Israel had first to withdraw, before the U.S. would pledge its help...
Eisenhower thus threw out an apparent hint that the United States stands ready, if a showdown comes, to support some kind of United Nations sanctions against Israel for her failure thus far to head U.N. demands to withdraw...
...side was an increasing body of congressional opinion against punishing Israel for her refusal to withdraw from Egyptian territory without nonaggression guarantees...