Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Received, "with regret" a request from Allen Whitfield to withdraw Whitfield's name as a nominee for membership on the Atomic Energy Commission. Whitfield, an attorney and Republican leader of Des Moines. had been under fire from Democrats for his handling of an estate trusteeship before and during World War II. He said he could not answer a set of 24 questions from Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, without violating confidential relations with his clients...
Then McCarthy tried to withdraw his resolution. Johnson and Knowland forced the resolution to a vote, and McCarthy lost, 77 to 4. Aside from Joe, the only remaining adherents of McCarthywasm were Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone and North Dakota's Langer...
Last week the French Foreign Office officially denied that it had made a deal with Franco to withdraw aid from the Loyalist exiles in return for a soft-pedaling of anti-French activity among the Arabs in Spanish Morocco. For the French to admit withdrawing aid from the Loyalists would be to acknowledge that in the past it had been given. But Spanish democrats, with small hope of unseating Franco, were preparing for a cutback in the French help that had sustained them through 16 years of exile...
Unexpectedly, the French agreed last week to withdraw the combat troops of their 80,000-man expeditionary corps from the capital city of Saigon into embarkation zones on the coast. French Commissioner-General Paul Ely. who had underestimated the staying power of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, asked to be relieved of his command. Eagerly, in Freedom Palace young Vietnamese Nationalist officers worked out the details of the takeover that would give the Vietnamese effective control of Saigon for the first time in 90 years. Just to show that individual Frenchmen would always be welcome in his country as friends, Premier...
From that moment on, the treaty was ready for signature. Its main provisions: ¶ Restore Austrian independence by promising to withdraw the 60,000 occupation troops "within ninety days"; ¶ Establish Austria's boundaries as they were on Jan. 1, 1938. and forbid another Anschluss with Germany; ¶ Respect Austria's territorial integrity. Additionally, the Big Four are expected to promise to "recognize and observe" Austria's neutrality...