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With Pakistani troops still holding part of Kashmir, Nehru roared, "there can be no question of a plebiscite. Talk of a plebiscite has now become a joke." Furthermore, he said, Kashmir was just a Pakistani ploy to divert attention from its failure to improve the lot of its people: "Even if there were no Kashmir question, Pakistan would create some other issue to keep this hate campaign against India going...
...testimony before the subcommittee. New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston argued that the heavily policed Big Board does not need probing and opposed any overall investigation. "We think it would be unwise," Funston said, "to direct the SEC to undertake broad new studies if these will divert its energy from the inquiries presently under way. It seems to us it is more important to reach conclusions regarding presently known problems than it is to delay those conclusions in the search for new problems." Nonetheless. Wall Street waited in uncomfortable fascination to see what new worms-or hitherto undescribed...
...sought to persuade textile-producing areas with low labor costs-Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and the U.A.R.-to agree to put voluntary limits on their exports so as to avoid complete disruption of the already glutted world textile market. The scheme had twin purposes: 1) to divert some Asian textiles from U.S. to European markets, and 2) to give the underdeveloped nations an economic boost in the form of European trade rather than...
...coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion...
...fulfilling one of Kennedy's major aims: coordinating State and Defense policies so that U.S. diplomacy and military power go hand in hand. Nitze (rhymes with it's-a.) can tackle a ski trail at Aspen, discuss theology with a Jesuit, and is handsome enough to divert attention from Kennedy himself at public gatherings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become the first Defense Secretary. In 1932 Nitze married Phyllis Pratt, granddaughter...