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...designed to get the Israelis out of Egypt and to give Israel more security by deploying the U.N. Emergency Force in some of the borderline areas (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.N. approach had more chance of success; more than 50 nations supported it. On Capitol Hill President Eisenhower, stung by the attacks on Dulles, helped the Middle East doctrine through the Senate by saying in effect that he did not intend to fire Dulles as a price for senatorial cooperation (see below). Most notable good news of the week was that the U.S. and Saud, without wasting time on platitudinous...
Though obviously stung by these gibes, Nehru last week assured the world: "If I am convinced that I have not honored any international commitments in regard to Kashmir, I will either honor them or resign my prime ministership." Unimpressed, Britain's Liberal Manchester Guardian retorted: "Mr. Nehru evidently does not recognize that he is throwing away much of India's moral authority...
...size of the first-run turnout indicated that few people had followed Poujade's instructions to boycott the election. His pride stung, Poujade called a press conference to announce (as his wife plac idly nursed their new six-weeks-old daughter) that he was taking the unusual step of filing for the runoff when he had not even been a candidate in the first election. He flooded the district with 800,000 pamphlets, held a mammoth rally in Paris' biggest arena, charged the Mollet government with "black cowardice" in its concessions to the Algerian Moslems. "Who among...
...Impending Defeat. Beyond civil rights and its reefs, there waits the prospect of a second losing battle for the South. Stung by "Judge" Nixon's interpretation. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change...
...Eden's conduct, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell accused Eden of invoking the law of the jungle, and added, "The jungle is a dangerous place where we should realize that there are much more dangerous animals wandering about than Great Britain and France." The knowledge that the Russian bear, stung by his own wounds, might blunder into the Middle East gave pause to everyone-even, in the end, to Anthony Eden and to France's Guy Mollet...