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...face of it. the cable seemed an invitation to opportunity. The Chinese Nationalists certainly thought so-they voted against it in the U.N. The Russians appeared to think so-they withheld their veto so that the invitation could be transmitted. By their cheap conquest of one island outpost, the Red Chinese had, in a sense, persuaded the Western powers to sue for truce. Peking, without being asked to justify its behavior in any way, was being given the opportunity to use the U.N. as a forum to push its claim to Formosa and its demand for U.N. membership...
...Communists are stronger there than anywhere else in India. Andhra is India's first "linguistic state," formed in 1953 among the 21 million Telegu-speaking people. As such, it is only one of 29 Indian states, but India's Communists hope to make it their first conquest; they talk confidently of converting Andhra into an Indian "Yenan," a power base from which they can subvert the rest of India...
Innocent Guinea Pig. Things were again stirring excitingly on the drama front. NBC's Producers' Showcase went all-out with a 90-minute color production of the 1934 Broadway play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes...
...Indian mistress. Skeptics to the contrary, English Author Baron is dealing no joker from the historical deck; it really happened that way. Malinali, or Marina, as the Spaniards christened her, emerges as a tawny tidbit just turned 18 and just about Cortés' first Mexican conquest. Intelligent and fearless, she soon comes to share his council as well as his bed. On the long, fierce road to the golden halls of Montezuma, Cortés relies on her as his eyes, ears and translating tongue. Faithful Marina also bears Cortés a son. Yet Novelist Baron never...
...probable that, except for the temporary limitation of her naval armaments. Japan would have been unable to wage her war of conquest in China during the early thirties and would not have been able to ally herself with Germany. It is even conceivable that China would not have fallen under Communist domination if Britain and the United States had not chosen in Washington to abandon their strategic ascendancy in the Pacific...