Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allen, originally invited to the conference, graduated from Duke University and received his A.M. from Harvard in 1929. Allen has also been Ambassador to India and to Yugoslavia...
Eisenhower's creative leadership, though it sometimes had a hard time asserting itself through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable...
...with this evidence, Konoklov admitted, just before stepping back into Hungary, that he and his wing man had been chasing two escaping Hungarian pilots and, failing to shoot one down, had rammed it. The second Hungarian plane apparently got away, but where it landed (whether in West Germany or Yugoslavia) was one of the week's best-kept secrets...
Neither side would give ground. At last. Assembly President José Maza of Chile proposed a novel solution-Yugoslavia and the Philippines could agree to split the two-year Council term, draw lots to see which sits the first year. At a private meeting in Maza's office. Yugoslavia won the draw. Then, however, the Assembly balked at Maza's recourse to "lottery'' and insisted on more balloting. More balloting brought more deadlock, and finally Yugoslavia agreed, if elected, to resign from the Council after one year in the Philippines' favor. With that understanding...
...antagonists were the Philippines and Yugoslavia; the issue geography and precedent. The British Commonwealth countries, West Europeans and the Soviet bloc insisted on Yugoslavia's election to the Security Council seat that has been reserved since a "gentlemen's agreement" in London ten years ago as the "East European" seat on the Council. The U.S., arguing that the agreement has run out and that Asia's growing importance entitles it to a Council seat, was joined by almost all of the Latin Americans and many Asian members in supporting the Philippines...