Word: withdrawnness
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...should Europe's oil shortage be met? Already private U.S. companies are selling oil to Europe, but the Europeans are having to pay with scarce dollars. Once Britain and France have withdrawn from Egypt, the U.S. will try to work out a way of providing dollar credit-probably on an all-Western-Europe basis, working through Western Europe's Organization for European Economic Cooperation...
After dinner, Eden's ministers arrived at 10 Downing Street. The argument was vigorous. The moderates, led by Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler, argued hotly that the troops should be withdrawn at once and every effort made to restore Britain's standing with the U.N. The "get-tough" group, headed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, insisted that Britain must salvage something from the wreckage (or at least save some face). They urged that Eden use the troops as a bargaining point to force some sort of international control on Nasser...
...funds for one-third of its government expenditures. At the moment France is its closest ally, linked by equal dislike of the Arabs. Israel has most stable and most democratic government in the area, a victory-flushed army probably capable of defeating all Arab nations together. Last week, having withdrawn their ambassador, the Russians sent Israel a stiff note questioning its "existence" as a state. Without formal allies, Israel now finds it necessary to stand as close...
This year the Olympics have been seriously undermined even before the games start. Team after team has withdrawn to protest Russia's action in Hungary and England's action in Egypt, and then to add to the commotion, Communist China withdrew to protest the participation of Nationalist China...
Egypt and Iraq had withdrawn, would not be present to compete with their enemies. The Communist Chinese had pulled out in a fit of pique over an invitation to the Nationalists. Solemnly Avery Brundage, the International Olympic Committee's president, insisted that "in an imperfect world, if participation in sports is to be stopped every time the politicians violate the laws of humanity, there will never be any international contests." The Olympics, he argued, are above politics; the games must...