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Compromise Communiqué. The U.S. opened its diplomatic drive on the SEATO front when Secretary of State Rusk touched down in the steaming heat of Bangkok for a conference of member foreign ministers. Rusk was determined to get SEATO to declare that, if the Soviets did not respond favorably by midweek to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer, then SEATO "will take military measures to check further aggression." SEATO's Asian members-the Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos, who live in the shadow of Communism-strongly endorsed such a stand. But Rusk learned on his very first night in Bangkok...
...flowery Portuguese, Galvão radioed his "first official communiqué to all democratic newspapers of the free world." Speaking in the name of "General Humberto Delgado, legally elected President of the Portuguese Republic, who has been fraudulently deprived of his rights by the Salazar administration," Galvão saluted the "oppressed peoples" of Portugal and Spain, swore he had received aid from no foreign government, and added that the capture of the Santa Maria marked the liberation of the first piece of Portuguese "territory...
...Paulo last week, Delgado celebrated the coup with convivial glasses of red Portuguese wine, raisins and crackers. Chatting happily with newsmen, he answered overseas phone calls and fired off stirring communiqués informing the U.S. and Britain that the capture of the Santa Maria "does not represent mutiny or piracy but only the seizure of Portuguese transport by Portuguese to fulfill Portuguese political objectives." The act, he cried, "will contribute greatly to the liberation of Portugal" and prepare the way for setting up a "provisional government...
After a solemn five-day meeting of the Central Committee, they issued a communiqué that flatly reversed Chairman Mao Tse-tung's cherished plan to achieve a "big leap" in industry. Instead, the communiqué called for "appropriately reduced" industrial investments and urged "all sectors and occupations to step up support for agriculture" as "the foundation of the national economy...
Chairman's Plan. What went wrong was not the widely advertised series of "natural calamities"-though the communiqué talked gloomily of floods and droughts-but Chairman'Mao's own plans. More than two years ago, Mao launched his big push. Every peasant was to be put in a commune. He ordered a 10% cutback in acreage, accompanied by intensive cultivation that would release more manpower for industry. Mechanization and irrigation were supposed to keep the crop yields soaring. But though the new report brags that tractors have tripled, the total still comes to only...