Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning four of the 16 fellahin who had agreed to accept land from the French were dead, and the remaining twelve had decided to withdraw their applications. France's Algerian Minister Resident Robert LaCoste sadly canceled the Saint Lucien land distribution and postponed elections in the Kabylia...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Troubleshooter Allen, onetime North Carolina schoolteacher and newspaper reporter (Asheville Times), longtime (26 years) Foreign Service officer, has had delicate assignments before-as ambassador in Iran (1946-48) when the West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions between NATO partners Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, to dampen neutralist swings in Greece...
...such sharp questions that an ex-guardsman major on the Tory side got up, pale and indignant, to say that Gaitskell's remarks amounted "to one of the most highly treasonable statements ever made by a member of the Opposition." Amidst outraged howls, the major was forced to withdraw. Writing in the Spectator, waspish Randolph Churchill protested that Britain now had a Turkish Foreign Secretary, and added, "This is what passes for statesmanship in the Eden...
...last week Thiem's digging had unearthed the biggest state scandal in years, spread it across Page One in Illinois papers from Waukegan to Cairo. Fearful that the scandal could rock Republican chances at the polls in November, Governor William Stratton last week ordered Auditor Hodge to 1) withdraw as a candidate for reelection, 2) double his surety bond (to $100,000) within 20 days or be fired...
Hopefully, the government described the Algerian war taxes as "temporary and extraordinary." Last week, however, as Moslem residents of Algiers marked the 126th anniversary of French conquest of the city with a one-day general strike, there seemed little likelihood that France would soon be able to withdraw the enormous (half a million men) and expensive ($2.9 million a day) force it currently maintains in Algeria. And, temporary or not, the new taxes clearly point to a continuation of the steady price rise, which since January has increased the minimum budget on which a Parisian family of four can live...