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...China's Mao Tse-tung and his Central Committee held their Tenth Plenary Session in Peking last week. Without giving any supporting figures, a communiqué reported industrial and agricultural production as "this year again slightly better." Reasons for such a disappointingly small leap forward: natural disasters, "spontaneous tendency toward capitalism among part of the small producers," and "incompetence of some leading cadres." Two oldtime comrades of Chairman Mao were bounced from the Central Control Commission, no reason given...
Charm in the Evening. As the critical speeches sputtered on, the once unflappable Mac began a desperate buttonholing campaign to moderate the views of Commonwealth officials and avert a flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
...their formal communiqué last week, De Gaulle and Adenauer addressed a special appeal for the cooperation of young people, and Europe's youth show signs of breaking down barriers that their fathers once thought insuperable; thousands of new schools are being built, and foreign languages are being seriously studied by a growing percentage of students. Economic progress as such always leaves more to be done and is always subject to setbacks. Western Europe's spectacular boom reaches beyond economics by having given its people a new sense of self-confidence; instead of the old feeling of superiority...
...Norodom Sihanouk, neutralist Cambodia's chief of state, is not only plagued by the threat of Communism and the problem of providing for his five million people, but also by far more personal cares. "This is to inform all dear citizens," Sihanouk told his subjects in a recent communiqué, "that a number of families lately came to tell me of their sufferings. They complained that His Royal Highness. Prince Norodom Yuvanath, who is my eldest son, had gone to bed with their daughters. On learning this I was sorry for the honor and future of these girls...
...World War I's calamitously costly Ypres offensive, only 49 of 500 Gurkhas in one battalion survived the first day's fighting-but they captured their objective and garnered new laurels, as a laconic British communiqué put it, "at the expense of their existence." Gurkhas were the only regiments to break through the Turkish lines at Gallipoli; in 1919 they chased the Bolsheviks from the Persian border and penetrated deep into the Caucasus before they were called off. In World War II, the 200,000 Gurkhas served with greater distinction in Africa. Burma and Italy-notably Monte...