Word: confidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Hupeh province, the Communists acknowledged that 106,000 volunteers had been called out to strengthen an "impregnable" water-retention project. At one Yangtze point, according to Radio Peking, 200 soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off...
That afternoon, sending Mustangs and Thunderbolts from its six-plane air force to strafe the holdouts, the junta forced the surrender of the rebellious base and arrested its top officers. The army fell obediently silent. The President ordered his irregulars rearmed. Then, as if finally confident that he, after all...
Tall, tough Allan Shivers had always been so successful in politics that Texas politicians had come to consider him almost invincible. Shivers himself has always been supremely confident. Two years ago he defied all the political rules of Democratic Texas when he campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower, led Texas' Democratic...
In Paris, Mendesès-France told reporters: "I have reason to smile." The only arguments left, said the British, were 1) whether the French would be allowed to keep a right of access to the port of Haiphong, and 2) how soon elections should be held in Viet Nam...
Red China. The Cabinet was badly split on this question: How should Britain vote when admission of Red China to the U.N. came up at the General Assembly this fall? Salisbury was against it; so, at this time, was Churchill; Eden had not made up his mind, but he did...