Word: suez
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...Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into the most successful chain of seaweed restaurants west of Suez: Trader...
...speaking with a slight Edwardian lisp, Salisbury has roamed the inner chambers of power for three decades. At his urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...
...game, now talk about some new Atlantic alliance that could serve as a counterweight. Charles de Gaulle dismisses the U.N. as "ce machin" (that thingumabob). France has stubbornly refused to contribute any support to the Congo operation. Britain has never felt the same about the U.N. since Suez. Last week Paul-Henri Spaak, who was the first president of the U.N. Assembly in 1946, declared himself "disillusioned" by the way the U.N. was trending-as well he might, being Belgian. "The Assembly now wants to use force to solve . . . problems of a domestic nature," Spaak complained, and with "a passionate...
...agree with the bellicose Chinese at last month's Communist summit conference. In a speech published in the theoretical magazine Kommunist, Khrushchev explained the nuances to loyal Moscow party organizers. The Communist revolution, said Khrushchev, is not in favor of big wars or "local wars" of the Suez type that might blaze up and get out of control; but Communism will encourage and support "without reservation" all "national liberation wars" that might hurt "capitalist imperialism." In other words, the Russians would go on subsidizing subversion and stoking up revolution wherever it suited them. "National liberation wars" that Communism backs...
...means acquiescing to the permanent existence of Israel, which is something that grates their Arab pride. Last week the United Arab Republic's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Sabry told Cairo's National Assembly that Arabs would resist any "pressures" Kennedy might apply to open the Suez Canal to all ships, including Israel...