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...invention of the steam engine. We must face the atomic age with a transformation of the whole way our government thinks and acts." In rejoinder, Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey of Princeton warned that immediate abandonment of the nation concept was hardly practical, and certainly not in accord with the ideas of Pacem in Terris...
...Viet Minh, a Community-controlled organization, to take control of this country; this war commenced formally in 1946. The balance in that war only really shifted to the Viet Minh as a result of crucial aid from Communist China. The partitioning of Vietnam as a result of the Geneva Accord of 1954 did not end that war, for the Viet Minh continued its hold on large areas in the South. We say it is basically this group, now called Viet Cong, which is fighting in South Vietnam...
...this partition, lies the origin of the present crisis in Vietnam. The Geneva accord promised that nation-wide elections would be held in July, 1956, to reunite the North and the South. But the United States had no intenion of permitting the election. As President Eisenhower stated in his memories. "I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of fighting, possible 80 percent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader." Some observers have estimated...
...Arab states would follow Cairo's lead. With that, Bonn quickly backed down. An appeal for help went out to Spain for a mediator who could camouflage the defeat. Generalissimo Franco agreed to send his top troubleshooter, the Marqués de Nerva, to Cairo. He swiftly reached accord with Nasser. West Germany promised an immediate cessation of arms shipments to Israel and an end to training of Israeli army officers. In return, Nasser promised only that he would not recognize East Germany "in the near future...
Shakespearean Epic. Queen Elizabeth, who was notified of Churchill's death before it was officially announced to the public, took the unprecedented step of requesting Parliament to accord her former Prime Minister a state fu neral, the first such tribute to a commoner since Gladstone's death in 1898. Churchill will be buried in a tranquil Oxfordshire graveyard beside his parents: Lord Randolph Churchill and his beautiful American wife, Jennie Jerome...