Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in a little British magazine, The Cornhill, Author Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, said: "If Americans are placed in a situation where they feel they are not loved, their natural tendency is to withdraw. . . . This is one component making for isolationism ... a reproduction on an international scale of the response, 'Let's get the hell out of here...
...Palestine allotted by U.N. to the Arabs. Half of his 16,000-strong Arab Legion, trained, subsidized and led by the British, is already in Palestine. The British last week were dickering with him to take over the policing of the Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater Syria) suspected that, once installed, Abdullah's Legionnaires would stay in Palestine. Abdullah's delegate to the League, Prime Minister Samir Rifai, chain-smoked nervously through last week's meetings...
...Fellers, and Gluyas Williams' gentle panels on suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with the Bell Syndicate. Byrnes threatened to fill the strip with anti-Communist digs. Taunted the Worker...
France Spain received a diplomatic blow as the United Nations Political Committee reaffirmed a Soviet-sponsored resolution that calls on U.N. members to withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid and for the Security Council to act if Spain did not establish a democratic regime in a "reasonable" time...
...Moslem Karachi, Pakistan Governor General Mohamed Ali Jinnah raged at the news. He ordered Pakistan troops, under British Lieut. General D. D. Gracey, into Kashmir. The order was not carried out, for in New Delhi British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck threatened to withdraw British officers from Pakistan's Army...