Word: setbacks
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...great setback for Stevenson," Beer, who is chairman of the Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action, said. "The danger is that if Kefauver is not nominated, it will mean a crazy convention which might go through around 108 ballots." Beer added that the Minnesota decision might lead the Democrats to choose a dark horse candidate. If the July convention fails to come to an early decision, Beer said, "someone might do a Willkie...
...called "possibly the best speech he has given in Parliament." He summed up, as government debaters had not bothered to, the grave consequences of General Glubb's expulsion from command of Jordan's British-paid army: "It increases the danger of war. It is a very serious setback to the policy of the Baghdad Pact. It accordingly becomes clear, surely, that we must have a reassessment of our whole policy in the Middle East...
Last week's events in Jordan constituted a crushing defeat for the British and a setback for the whole Western position in the area. Israel, which used to denounce Glubb Pasha, now recognized him as a moderating force among the Arabs, and took his dismissal as a sign that the neighbor country may disintegrate and that Egypt may install a puppet regime among the diehard Palestinian refugees west of the Jordan...
...Soviet challenge which has confronted us since the first Geneva meeting. The President has been too ill to deal with it, and Mr. Dulles has been too preoccupied with his travels, his negotiations, and his speeches. In these past six months we have suffered the biggest setback since the Communist victory in China...
...fundamental cause of the setback is that the Soviet Union has been developing a new foreign policy since Geneva, whereas we have remained frozen and inflexible in the policy of the pre-Geneva period. With nobody at the top in Washington who can and will take new decisions, our diplomacy is almost everywhere fighting rear-guard actions...