Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House to call for an immediate Security Council meeting to deal with the Israeli invasion of Egypt. When Russia's Arkady Sobolev strode into the Security Council waving a wire-service report that Britain and France were threatening to invade Egypt, Lodge promptly added to his Israel-must-withdraw resolution a provision calling upon all U.N. members (i.e., Britain and France) to withhold assistance from Israel "as long as it has not complied with this resolution." Britain vetoed. During the painful weeks that followed, Lodge found himself voting with Sobolev against historic U.S. allies, had the task of working...
...methodical handling of difficult situations, 67-year-old Premier Charles de Gaulle has nowhere shown himself more adept than in his dealings with Tunisia's hard-pressed Premier Habib Bourguiba. De Gaulle's predecessors, by refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria...
...Soviet government denounced the U.S. landing in Lebanon as an "open act of aggression ... a direct act of war and open piracy," demanded that the U.S. withdraw its forces immediately. Russia cannot remain "indifferent," the Kremlin warned...
...this point the delegate from Japan, worried about the U.S. position, got ready his compromise. He proposed the creation of a larger and really effective U.N. team, which would permit the U.S. to withdraw its troops with some assurance that the independence and integrity of Lebanon would be preserved. If the Russians were really concerned about getting U.S. troops withdrawn, they could hardly object. But who could say that this was what the Russians were really interested...
India and Indonesia both formally demanded that the U.S. withdraw its marines. So did Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (a visitor in Canada last week) who has an Egyptian bride and recently visited Egypt, but is determined not to let Nasser dominate Africa. India's Nehru, so slow to condemn Soviet intervention in Budapest, but now disturbed by Communist gains in India, mildly condemned the U.S. The fall of Iraq, diminishing the Baghdad Pact, hurts Pakistan, and therefore pleases India...