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Though Ireland is a relative newcomer to the U.N. (1955) and has one of the smallest delegations, it has made a name" for itself out of all proportion to its size. Boland arrived at the U.N. just before Suez and Hungary shocked the world. On Suez, Ireland voted against France and Britain ("We felt the attack on Egypt endangered all small countries"), but criticized Nasser for provoking the attack. On Hungary, Ireland inspired and then co-sponsored the resolution that set up a five-nation committee of inquiry. Ireland has stepped on the toes of both sides in the cold...
...Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959 and May 26, 1958). An old North African hand, he was able to judge last week's Algerian story against the background of his coverage of the last days of French rule in Morocco and of the British-French invasion of Suez...
...Treason Theme. Beaten by the Nazis and the Viet Minh, humiliatingly ousted from Morocco and Tunisia, evacuated from Suez, the French army has salved its pride by ascribing all its reverses to "betrayal by the politicians." Its mutinous spirit was not ragtag but austere: a conviction that they who did the dirty fighting are purest of heart, and entitled to sit in judgment upon the acts of the state. "Conditional loyalty," Old Soldier De Gaulle called...
Wasn't Sesostris III the Pharaoh who built the first Suez Canal? You leave us uninformed on this interesting point in your Jan. 4 article noting the placing of his statue at the canal entrance...
...Hawaiian Dredging & Construction Co. Ltd. and J. H. Pomeroy & Co. Inc., a San Francisco engineering firm. Both Hawaiian Dredging and Pomeroy, which have done construction work for the sugar planters for years, are old hands at development projects; Hawaiian currently is in a three-company U.S. combine deepening the Suez Canal...