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Crows & Bombing Planes. In 1895, after its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, China was forced to cede Formosa to Japan. Admiral Viscount Kabayama, appointed Japan's first governor general, sailed down to Formosa in triumph, released from his flagship as a sign of victory a pair of crows. Their descendants still make Formosan daybreaks raucous...
...resume the throne and assume again his full constitutional powers. 2. Another plebiscite be held. 3. He abdicate in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin. 4. He return to the throne and then temporarily cede his powers to his son. 5. The monarchy be abandoned in favor of a Republican form of government...
...years, the Belgian people this week heard the voice of their exiled King. In a seven-minute speech, recorded in Switzerland and put on the radio in Belgium, Leopold outlined a compromise plan for his return. He asked that he be recalled to the throne, whereupon he would "temporarily" cede the royal powers to his 19-year-old son Baudouin. In Brussels anti-Leopoldists asked: How long is "temporarily...
...steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept 230,000 of them provided Egypt would cede the narrow 25-mile-long coastal area around Gaza. (Nobody has even got around to making a close estimate of how many refugees are involved; guesses vary from...
...alarm to thinly veiled references in Arab newspapers to the "coming second round" (i.e., of the Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can get the Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become a burning symbol of Israeli nationalism. Said a Lausanne observer last week: "Three Jews in Tel Aviv...