Word: informality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly's Political Committee, France showed that it was doing its best to link the vocation and the friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria's future status with whoever won the elections...
...group of freshmen have just formed a Harvard Freedom Council, to inform students of activity in the Soviet satellites, it was learned recently. As its first major project the group hopes to stage a Hungarian drive similar to the one completed by Kirkland House last week...
Cuba's troublesome wave of sporadic bombings, sabotage and bloodshed spread into its third month last week. Strongman Fulgencio Batista was still undisputed boss of the island, but a few more months of terrorism might well bring the hour when other army officers would gravely inform him that-"for the good of Cuba" -he must step down. To head off that hour. Batista acted. He broadened the existing partial suspension of civil rights to cover the entire island, extended the decree another 45 days. Then he sent censors to newspapers, cable offices, radio and television stations to place...
...subject were not taken up Monday, recent publicity could be expected to mount, and steps apparently are being taken to prepare to inform Jordan officially of the decision, and to make an announcement public at that time...
...Moscow. Princeton exposed Prince Konoye (he captained the university's 1937-38 golf team, flunked out in his senior year) was captured in Manchuria (1945) while serving as a lieutenant, in 1951 was socked with a 25-year sentence for "aiding capitalism." Russia did not bother to inform Japan of his death, allowed news to leak out last week when other Ivanovo inmates were repatriated...