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...Japanese, ten years after Hiroshima and surrender, is to have the best of two worlds. They yearn to be neutralist-and mean by that a nimble sort of neutralism which would provide them with the continuing money, protection and support of the U.S. while leaving them free to dicker and deal with the Communists. It is a dream others have had, too. But being what they are and where they are, the Japanese can hardly hope to avoid the angry winds around their wood and paper houses...
...CRIMSON takes pleasure in announcing the election of its Executive Board for 1955-56: Cliff F. Thompson '56, of Fairway, Kan., and Lowell House as President; John Jay Iselin '56 of Greenville, S. C., and Eliot House as Managing Editor; Charles Michael Dicker '56 of New York and Everett St., Cambridge, as Business Manager; William Warren Bartley, III '56 of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Eliot House as Editorial Chairman; Stephen S. B. Shohet '56 of Willard Rd., Brookline, and Leverett House as Photographic Chairman; Jack Rosenthal '56 of Portland '56 of Portland, Ore., and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; steven...
...U.S.S.R. will not even dicker with the Western powers, said the note, unless the West abandons the European Army plan, dismantles the NATO alliance and the global network of air and naval bases. There will be no chance of bargaining, the note added, unless the West agrees to include Red China...
Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...
...Bonn, "has spread confusion and fear in the ranks of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government coalition." If the Russians can lessen West Germany's healthy skepticism, Adenauer might lose an election to the West German Social Democrats, who are not as adamant as he in refusing to dicker with the Communists. Adenauer also fears that the Russian moves might lead to Big Four negotiations over Germany, in which the Germans would have no voice. "Bismarck," he said, "spoke of his nightmare of a foreign coalition against Germany. I also have a nightmare. Its name is Potsdam." He demanded...