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Divorced. Anthony Nutting, 39, onetime (1954-56) British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who resigned protesting the British-French action at Suez; by Gillian Nutting, 40, who pleaded desertion; after 18 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in London...
...complicating factor in Hungary-which doubtless made Moscow bold-was that simultaneously the West was involved in the tragic affair of Suez. The buildup to Suez: 1) Dulles angered Egypt's Dictator Nasser when he pulled back U.S. aid from the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Nasser's acceptance of Red arms; 2) Nasser seized the Suez Canal; 3) Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle...
...rights of the people of all countries to choose freely a way of life as well as political and economic systems." India's press and public demanded that Nehru be at least as forthright in denouncing Red China as he was in denouncing Britain and France during the Suez invasion, and were impatient with his bland impeachments of Peking. In Buddhist Cambodia, a newspaper that often echoes Cambodia's neutralist royal family urged Red China to withdraw its troops from Tibet and prove "that it respects the hopes of all peoples for liberty and self-determination...
Delegates to the assembly plan to discuss whether the Suez should be made an international waterway, whether Red China should be admitted to the U.N., whether trust countries should be turned over to the U.N., and whether the U.N. police force should be empowered to draft servicemen from member nations...
...Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine...