Word: rebuff
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...good friend Pietro Nenni, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize, who has been pushing hard to infiltrate the government, was openly delighted to have Gronchi as President. In all probability, Gronchi's victory means that the days of Premier Scelba are numbered. And faced with such a personal rebuff, it was hard to see how Amintore Fanfani could long continue as party secretary. Whatever Gronchi might or might not do as President until 1962, his election in an atmosphere of doubt, ambiguity and faction, proved that there is nothing resembling strong leadership in Italian politics generally...
Aside from possible benefits of a "listening post" within China, the offer of recognition would also provide a lever for negotiations. The British mistakenly extended recognition immediately, without seeking anything in return. Times have changed since China's rebuff to Britain; an offer of U.S recognition today would probably meet with Pciping's acceptance, especially since recognition would bring U.N. admission one step closer to Mao's government...
...would be the north of Scotland." Stalin scotched that idea with the reply, through Ambassador Averell Harriman, that he had suffered ear trouble after his 1943 trip to Teheran, and this his "doctors considered any change of climate would have a bad effect." In the face of this rebuff, the eager Roosevelt sent word that the Black Sea area might be suitable. Stalin said he "would be delighted...
...place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers, the election was everywhere understood as a rebuff to the Premier. "The sole of the boot was for Le Troquer," rejoiced one anti-Mendès Deputy, "but the heel was for Mend...
...Senator Knowland, urged a blockade of the Chinese mainland and suggested even more drastic moves. But the President rejected the blockade proposal and promised that the United states would not be "goaded into unwise actions." His appeal to the United Nations to seek the prisoners' release was a rebuff to extremist elements in the United States and a much-needed assurance to American allies that this country still intends to support the world organization actively...