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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German Fears. The jostling was most apparent in Konrad Adenauer's actions. Originally, he was to meet Ike in London after the President had seen the others, but as he explained to his advisers: "I would either have been compelled to accept what the other three had agreed on in their previous meetings, or, if I disagreed with their plans, I would be saddled with the odium of disturber of the peace." So Eisenhower will see Adenauer first in Bonn next week. In anticipation, the President's personal pilot, Colonel William A. Draper, test-landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The European Welcome | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Nonetheless, come fall, India again intends to sponsor Red China's admission to the U.N. But no longer with the old unanimity. "Is there no limit to the humiliations and harassments we are prepared to accept at China's hands?" asked the Indian Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Precarious Frontiers | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Khrushchev's tentative itinerary includes New York and Chicago, stops in Iowa, Texas and California-where Vice President Nixon will greet the Russians in his native state. Khrushchev announced that he would probably accept an invitation from Farmer-Businessman Roswell Garst to visit his corn farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. Explained Garst, who met Khrushchev on a trip to the U.S.S.R.: "He's primarily interested in raising corn so that Russia can raise more livestock. And we know how to raise corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Exchange of Visits | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...prevent war, and then we don't have to have shelters." Added South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings aimlessly: "There is a right to live and a right to die. Housing, highways, health, and things of the living are more important. I doubt the public would accept such a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: Right to Die | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...bustle of Geneva became a show without an audience. "There is no one left in the grandstands." sighed a Western diplomat sadly. For the time being at least, the three Western foreign ministers seemed to have no more standing as policymakers than Andrei Gromyko himself. Gromyko even refused to accept Secretary Herter's mild suggestion that the foreign ministers resume talking when the U.N. General Assembly opens next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The End | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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