Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Molotov himself, reported Churchill, had sent a message to the Turks offering to withdraw 1) Russian claims on Turkish territory, 2) demands for a share in the military control of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Both proposals, in effect, add up only to a renunciation by the Russians of something which they have no prospect of gaining anyway (short of a war); nonetheless, Churchill regarded Molotov's message to an ancient enemy as perhaps the most important single gesture since Stalin's death...
...which the Senate Internal Security (McCarran) Subcommittee had found to have been infiltrated by Communist sympathizers. Shillinglaw said that he had satisfied himself that the I.P.R. had purged itself of subversive elements. But Dirksen, fearful of objections in the Senate, especially by McCarran and Joe McCarthy, asked Shillinglaw to withdraw anyway. Replied Shillinglaw: No-"It's a matter of honor...
There were plenty of things the old man could do. The President could order his army not to withdraw from any agreed "demilitarized zone," and might even launch a wildcat attack of his own. His men are on guard at all the prison camps except Camp Eight, where balking Chinese prisoners are kept; ROK guards might turn loose all North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation. Rhee's delegate to the truce talks, Major General Choi Duk Shin, boycotted one session, and Rhee commended him for "high patriotism." General Choi told correspondents: "People ask me if we can fight alone...
...states agreed that each would tell Dulles the same things. Their immediate enemy, they would say, is not Russia but Britain (see above) and Israel. They would tell Dulles that they would make peace with Israel only on condition that three U.N. resolutions are revived and enforced: i) Israel withdraw to the area fixed in the U.N.'s 1947 partition plan (and surrender 2,370 square miles, more than 25% of Israel's total area); 2) Jerusalem must be internationalized; 3) Israel must allow the three-quarter million Palestine refugees, now living in squalid camps throughout the Middle...
...Columbia resolution threatened to withdraw recognition from any group which, by 1960, is still "compelled by its constitution, rituals, or government to deny membership to any person because of his race, color, or religion...