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...agreement before a new Majlis. Troublesome tribesmen, who roam over two-thirds of Persia's barren land, gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza...
Senator Vandenberg firmly repeated his hope of disarmament as "our dearest dream." But: "We shall not disarm alone. . . . We shall take no 'sweetness and light' for granted in a world where there is still too much 'iron curtain.' We shall not trust alone to fickle words. Too many 'words' at Yalta and at Potsdam have been distorted out of all pretense of integrity." (Jimmy Byrnes, listening, frowned deeply...
Vandenberg held up Bernard Baruch's atomic control plan as an example of U.S. willingness to disarm. Said the Senator: "The price [continuous international inspection and control] is simply continuous protection against treachery. But it is a fixed price . . . and the price must be paid...
Walter Lippmann represents a school of thought that sees something sinister in the Soviet willingness to disarm. Stating that Russian military strength depends upon its manpower while ours rests on a technological base, he says that the Soviet proposal "is in its essence that the Soviet Union should demobilize and that we should disarm." In other words, Russia would lose nothing by sending the troops home, while we would render ineffectual our science-dependent war machine. The first of two important points over looked by this Machiavellian school is that the USSR economy is today suffering from an acute shortage...
...Doggie Trick." In the absence of adequate explanation there are anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...