Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other areas of diplomatic activity last week the U.S. I¶Took the lead in marshaling the U.N. General Assembly's overwhelming, unprecedented vote (55-8) condemning the U.S.S.R. for its armed intervention in Hungary and calling upon it to make "immediate arrangements" to withdraw its forces under U.N. supervision and permit "the re-establishment of the political independence of Hungary."
...Netherlands, $275,000,000; Austria, $50,000,000. But Director Jacobsson did not think the need would arise. The size of the loan to Britain would help stabilize the sterling area with which France and other West European nations are associated, make it unnecessary for them to withdraw their quotas...
...changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual defense pact, wangled a promise that Russia would withdraw from its Finnish naval base at Porkkala. Patriot Paasikivi's coldly realistic view of his country's situation: Finland "is too small and dangerously located to afford a foreign policy directed against Russia...
...present rate of exchange (about $2.80) all the sterling offered. To demonstrate Britain's determination and ability to do so, Macmillan soberly outlined a series of measures by which he could almost double the nation's liquid dollar reserves. In case of urgent necessity, Britain could withdraw as much as $561 million of the $1.3 billion she had subscribed to the International Monetary Fund, and permission to make such withdrawals had already been requested. "Secondly," said the chancellor, "Her Majesty's Government own U.S. dollar securities to the value of between $750 million and $1 billion...
...finish the job. Mollet's own Socialist Party was split last week: 17 Socialist Deputies, including former Minister of Interior Jules Moch, demanded an extraordinary national party congress to review Mollet's record. The Radical Socialist Party headed by Pierre Mendès-France threatened to withdraw its 13 ministers from Mollet's coalition Cabinet unless he revised his Middle East and Algerian policies. The M.R.P. (Catholic) Party voted against Mollet in Parliament, forcing him to carry the issue (a minor budgetary item) on Communist votes. The meaning of these rebukes was plain to most Frenchmen...