Word: abolitionism
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Most conspicuous among the discontented were France's farmers, who find themselves in a painful economic squeeze caused by De Gaulle's abolition of the parity index linking farm and industrial prices. A month ago, a majority of France's Deputies demanded a special National Assembly session...
On a 9-to-7 vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week postponed "to a later time" (translation: to a later session of Congress) any hopeful attempt to repeal the so-called Connally Reservation of 1946, a roadblock to effective U.S. use of the World Court for settling international...
Last week in Geneva, city of historic disappointments, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Canada, the U.S.S.R. and four Communist puppet governments sat around a table in the Palais des Nations and talked disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), while in the next room the U.S.S.R. laid down a counterproposal -real...
¶Total abolition of conventional troops within three years, with an immediate reduction of U.S., Russian and Red Chinese military manpower to 1,700,000 in the first twelve to 18 months.
¶Finally, when and if all the rest has been achieved, complete abolition of nuclear weapons and military missiles, reduction of conventional troop forces to the level of local security forces, and establishment of an international armed police to crack down on treaty violators with force if necessary.