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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the Dalai troupe the Reds were cordial but noncommittal. Premier Chou En-lai gave a dinner in their honor, at which the guests presented Chou with samples of Tibet's golden sand and a pair of newly sprouted horns of a young deer. Said a Dalai delegate: "We will do our best to achieve a peaceful liberation for Tibet." Then Chou showed a film glorifying the power of China's Red army...
...Here we are," he said, "ten months after the outbreak of the [Korean] war and Canada today has only one battalion in the field and 6,000 men en route . . . If it had not been for the decisive action of the United States . . . Korea would now be under Communist control and it is quite feasible that Communist forces would have since invaded Formosa or even Japan...
...Verdict. In the mounting ruckus, calmness and common sense were lost. By last week the Kappa Alpha fraternity had threatened to pull out of Rollins en masse unless Wagner resigned. Someone put a "For Sale" sign in front of Wagner's house as an unmistakable hint. Some seniors demanded that ex-President Holt hand out their diplomas rather than Wagner. _ And even Hamilton Holt, Wagner's original sponsor, reversing himself, lent his powerful voice to the anti-Wagner camp...
...cynical, power-hungry leadership. Actually, it is the unification set in motion by these enthusiasms . . . that transmutes noble impulses into a reality of hatred and violence . . ." If there is a God, and I believe there is. He certainly wants His creations to remain individuals rather than kow-tow en masse to any supposedly edifying influence...
...Paris, over the hum of street traffic, a grinning gendarme yelled to a friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming...