Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port of Elath. The U.S. said that it was all a matter...
Proposal No. 1: Israel must withdraw behind the 1949 demarcation line in accordance with U.N. resolutions...
...European states." He insisted that Poland had to be Communist now: "The fate of Poland, its independence and security . . . are bound up with the camp of socialism." In fear of non-Communist strength, he demanded that some candidates, notably Socialist Edward Osubka Morawski, onetime Prime Minister (1945-47), withdraw. But by far the most important of Gomulka's moves was his alliance with Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski. Apparently convinced that many church freedoms won last October would be lost if Gomulka was rebuffed, the Roman Catholic Episcopate told Catholics that they had a duty to vote. Result: thousands...
Unrepentant and unhurrying to the end, the Israelis finally agreed to pull their troops out of the Sinai desert this week, under threat of still another U.N. censure vote. By an overwhelming 74-to-2 vote (France was the other nay), the General Assembly called on Israel to withdraw within five days behind the 1949 armistice line. Both Britain and the U.S. first worked to avoid an outright condemnation of Israel, and then supported the resolution. Though agreeing to withdraw, Israel attached conditions. It insisted that Egypt must never return to Gaza, which was in fact a part...
Washington is swinging round to the view that the U.N. Emergency Force in Sinai should occupy the Aqaba strongpoints as the Israelis withdraw, and stay until a settlement can be negotiated, to assure Israeli ships continued free passage to the Red Sea and the markets of Asia...