Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation has been successful," declared British Brigadier J.A.R. Robertson. "We have reinstated the Sultan's forces. Political control is developing." To make sure that the right kind of "political control'' continues to develop. Britain will maintain an airstrip at Firq, but will withdraw most of its regular troops...
...Future. By Nasser's standards, this too was a restrained speech. He made no demands that the U.N. Emergency Force withdraw from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship...
...Approved, in the Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. membership in the Eisenhower-backed international atoms-for-peace agency, but added a single qualification despite State Department protests. If the international organization adopts any amendment of which the Senate disapproves, the U.S. must withdraw from membership...
...long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy of backing the discredited Chiang may be stupid, but riots like this encourage isolationism, not realism, in the United States...
...proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only 275 out of 587 Deputies, Segni had little choice but to resign...