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...Nehru out of taking military action; Nehru was not listening. Replying to U.N. Acting Secretary-General U. Thant's appeal that India and Portugal negotiate their differences, Nehru said: "It is hardly possible to negotiate with a government that takes its stand on 16th century concepts of colonial conquest by force...
...discussion of self-determination is, of course, academic. The invasion is over, and India possesses Goa by right of conquest. It is also useless to point out that Prime Minister Nehru rejected the pleas of President Kennedy, the mediation offers of Secretary General U Thant, and a Portuguese proposal that international observers be sent to Goa--though none of these things should be forgotten...
...effect in Hawaii on Dec. 7. Ten full hours after Japan's virtually unopposed destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination on Clark Field in the Philippines. The only remaining major deterrent to Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia consisted of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse-and they were sunk three days later. Though Corregidor held out for five months, General Jonathan Wainwright's surrender-"with broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame"-was the greatest...
...Junkpile. The Communists had boasted of their conquest of flood and drought. But last year in central China, there was no rain for 200 days in a row. In North China, the Yellow River dried up so completely that a car could be driven on its bed, but in Manchuria rampaging rivers drowned coal mines and steel mills in Anshan and Mukden. Yet bad weather, which Li Fu-chun and Peking's other leaders used as an excuse, was far from the whole explanation of China's woes. Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have...
...specializing in economics as deputy to Chen Yun, a pragmatic labor organizer from Shanghai. With the Red conquest of the mainland, Li became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...