Word: withdrawnness
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...School professor offered a solution yesterday to the present dispute between France and the United Nations over the Algerian issue. The French have withdrawn their permanent U.N. delegation in a protest against the General Assembly's decision to discuss the North African problem...
...Virgins. In the two weeks since, the government of France has all but fallen apart. Foreign Minister Pinay objected that he had not been consulted on the wording, and President Coty's letter was withdrawn. The Defense Minister, retired Gaullist General Pierre Koenig, declared his opposition to the whole plan. Deputies demonstrated in the Assembly, and Pierre Montel, chairman of the Assembly's Defense Committee, flew to Morocco to urge Sultan Arafa to refuse to leave the throne. Marshal Alphonse Juin, NATO's Central European commander and France's top military man, publicly denounced Faure...
...Time to Act. But when the Arab defenses collapsed and the Egyptians were forced by Israeli strength to make an armistice in 1949, Moslem resentment smoldered, later flamed up. "Liberation guerrillas" attacked the British, by then withdrawn to the Suez Canal zone. Then they cut loose in Cairo, where they burned bars, restaurants, movie houses (all sinful in Moslem eyes) and hotels frequented by foreigners. Farouk's wobbly government began to cave in and a state of emergency was declared...
...support of the government of South Africa must be withdrawn immediately I ask you how free people the world over can stand by while such treatment is given to fellow beings...
...helping them fight off the Russians. Even at that early day, Disraeli's great opponent Gladstone urged that Cyprus be given to Greece. Britain formally offered it to Greece during World War I, as an inducement to get Greece into the war, but the Greeks refused. Now, having withdrawn from Suez, Britain has made Cyprus her eastern Mediterranean bastion. The British will never leave, said Britain's Colonial Secretary a year ago. (Never is a word British diplomats are never supposed...