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One or two French pilots saw it in the flarelight, from far above. The Legionnaires advanced from their shattered trenches toward the massed Red infantry, and the guns. Like the Confederate rush at Franklin, it was forlorn; like the Old Guard's serried march on Waterloo, it was final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Many white settlers were delighted. "Told you so," they crowed. "Now let's go on with the war." General Erskine was rueful: "It nearly came off . . ." At week's end, British aircraft equipped with loudspeakers swanned low over the forest with a new message for the Mau Mau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Massacre at Gathuini | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Last week, as quietly as possible, the government of Lower Saxony bowed to the demands, dug the corpses out of the prison yard, repacked each in a small box and reburied them in Hameln's municipal cemetery. "Relatives wanted to visit the graves, and we couldn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Decent Burial | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

¶The Lanchow-Sinkiang Railroad: Red China has laid down 200 miles of this projected 1,200-mile line, northwest from Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese. The job has Red China's top priority. "The workers are moving mountains and filling rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The New Empire Builders | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Off to Okinawa. The fact was that Rastovorov had gone to U.S. Intelligence agents and asked for political sanctuary. Last week, as rumors of a spy ring among high Japanese officials whirled through the Japanese press and panicky Russians cried that U.S. agents had captured him, Rastovorov was hustled aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: George the Spy | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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