Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...home truths. Last week the Tory cabinet assembled to hear the report of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, just back from the U.S. Lloyd had no good news. The U.S. still refused to arrange for emergency oil supplies until the British and French at least announced plans for withdrawal from Suez. After two hours' discussion, the Cabinet made the inevitable reluctant decision: Britain would withdraw. Significantly, in all the week's painful decisions, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in faraway Jamaica was reportedly consulted not once...
...Najaf, killing at least two and injuring hundreds. (Radio Cairo, greatly magnifying the casualties, boasted of open civil war in Iraq.) Nuri es-Said jailed five opposition chieftains, including a former justice minister and a former president of the Chamber of Deputies, for appealing to King Feisal II to withdraw from the Baghdad Pact. The 21-year-old King opened Parliament, in a speech from the throne that Nuri had written for him, by declaring martial law in all Iraq, and incidentally, in usual Arab fashion, called for the "elimination of Israel." When no fewer than 40 Deputies clamored...
...Without Success." Until then, Nasser says, operations were not going badly in Sinai: "All our operations had been defensive. For us, war had not begun." His main forces, not yet engaged, planned to mount a counterattack on the seventh or eighth day. The decision to withdraw from Sinai was easier made than carried out. With Egypt's airfields under Anglo-French attack, Nasser could not give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian...
Where else besides Syria had his planes taken refuge, Nasser was asked. "After enemy forces withdraw from our territory." grinned the Egyptian strongman, "we shall have many stories to tell...