Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled from China"; he said that the U.S. "must withdraw" all its forces from the Formosa Strait before peace can prevail. But when it came to aligning Russia with Peking's unqualified vow to "liberate" Formosa, Molotov was conspicuously noncommital...
...Government has already made two indictments against Lattimore, both of which Youngdahl rejected as unconstitutional. When he dismissed as too vague its first major charge, that Lattimore was a Communist sympathizer, U.S. attorney Rover accused Youngdahl of prejudice and asked him to withdraw from the case. Rover's accusation came very close to a demand for a judge who would give the verdict he desired...
...internal affairs of China," Molotov said he would consider it. (Molotov was more expansive later when visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. asked if there might be a local cease-fire to permit the bloodless evacuation of the Tachens. "If Chiang Kai-shek should desire to withdraw his forces from any islands, hardly anyone would try to prevent him from doing so," said Molotov dryly...
Gradually, Francisco Franco's Spain has been emerging from the Nazi-Fascist doghouse in which it was locked at the end of World War II. In 1946 the U.N. passed a resolution that member states withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid, and that Spain be denied any affiliation with U.N. agencies. In 1950 the resolution was repealed, and Spain is now a member of UNESCO and six other U.N. agencies. Last week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went a little further: after repeated proddings from Madrid, he invited Spain to send an official observer to the U.N. * Francisco Franco...
Although Lamont usually terms himself an "independent radical, "Senator McCarthy would not withdraw the charge of "Communist." In the investigation which ultimately led to Lamont's indictment, the Senator used as evidence against him the Army's reference in a so-called "Communist" instruction manual to Lamont's book, The Peoples of the Soviet Union. The condemned military manual, he reasoned, infected Lamont vicariously. the latter declined to testify on the ground that McCarthy had no authority as a Senator to question a private author's right to freedom of the press...