Word: rifted
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...many development not envisioned in 1945 was that a review conference, instead of relieving tension, would probably add to it. Ideally, such a conference should not be held at this time for it would only drive wider the rift between the United States and Russia. Revisions in the political sphere are unnecessary; the free world has come to rely on regional organizations for security. The U.S. and Soviet Russia should settle their differences through the usual channels of diplomacy, not under the klieg lights of a world forum where give and take is impossible and every speech becomes a point...
...southeast Asia alliance without Great Britain. In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill agreed with a Laborite who said that the opening of U.S.-French talks on Indo-China without Britain was "inconsistent with the spirit of the Western alliance." While some subsequent analyses of the U.S.-British rift were grossly exaggerated (Pundits Joseph and Stewart Alsop labeled one column "The Dissolving Partnership"), the Western alliance was obviously under considerable strain...
...created a rift in U.S.-British relations which a Foreign Office spokesman admitted was "the most serious since...
...publicly binding himself to inaction as long as the Communists were willing to talk, Eden made every hour profitable for the Communists. The longer they could keep Britain at the conference table, the longer they kept Britain and its allies paralyzed, and the wider the rift between Britain and its allies pressing for "united action...
...territory) oppose the Mau Mau. King Marealle's warning roused the coffee farmers, black and white alike; they quickly formed a posse, which was soon reinforced by a contingent of Masai nomads who came up from their grazing grounds among the salt lakes and craters of the Great Rift Valley. Posse and terrorists met head-on near Arusha...