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...UNEF, he said, was not in Egypt "to resolve any question or to settle any problem" but to "secure the withdrawal" of the Israeli invaders. After such withdrawal, he said, the UNEF must "take positions exclusively on both sides of the armistice demarcation line," and Egypt's consent would be "an indispensable prerequisite...
...Government of scores of undesirables. His Justice Department battled Communists (72 Smith Act convictions) and labor racketeers (an average of 30 labor prosecutions a year). And to the surprise of some G.O.P. businessmen, Justice has commenced 157 antitrust cases since January 1953, won 25 convictions and signed 99 consent decrees forcing breakups of business concentrations. Brownell has 1) pushed a program that reduced the backlog of Government cases in federal courts by 25%. and 2) coun seled the appointment of some 68 high-caliber federal judges. His department helped win the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation...
Already Bill Knowland had met with fellow Republican congressional leaders at a nine-hour White House session, lunched with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, attended a bipartisan legislative conference at the White House, worked at reshuffling the Senate's Republican high command, helped draft a unanimous-consent agreement under which the Senate would debate a change in its rules, and assisted in writing a resolution paving the way for President Eisenhower's Middle East message to a joint session of Congress. All this was part of Knowland's job as leader of a Senate minority that...
...Petofi hotheads gathered together at the monument of Sandor Petofi on the morning of Oct. 23. Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed the Chain Bridge to the west bank of the Danube...
...paper, at least, the 21-article agreement was a model of scrupulous regard between self-respecting allies. The Russians conceded that their troops would not move from their bases or conduct training exercises without Polish consent. Soviet military personnel would "respect and observe" Polish law, be tried in Polish courts for any crimes or misdemeanors committed against the Polish population. The Russians promised never, never to use their troops to influence Polish domestic affairs, and the document emphasized and reiterated that their stay was "temporary...