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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harbinger of another Republican springtime. It indicated that Farm-Belt Republicans can withstand attacks against Benson and win elections if they have good candidates and arm themselves with other positive issues. It proved that the nation's farmers are not yet mad enough over falling prices to swing, en bloc, to the Democrats. And it suggested that, even among disgruntled farmers, the issue of international peace transcends other national and local problems...
After taking more than a month to answer Nehru's last note on the border dispute, China's Premier Chou En-lai last week called for a meeting in just eight days because of "our unshirkable responsibility not only to our two peoples, but also to world peace...
...Independent Now." Next day De Gaulle arrived. Pausing en route in desert Mauritania-poorest of the Community's twelve states-he had answered his hosts' independence talk by saying: "You are independent now. The Community is going to change and develop, but we shall make the changes together...
Then the love affair palled. Red China decided that the Southeast Asian governments were more important than the Overseas Chinese and. wooing the Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was mutual. Hua-chiao students returned from China complaining of hardships under the Reds. The relatives back home saw little of the money that had been sent them, and sneaked out bitter reports about the communes...
...Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just in time, and turned back at the border before they could vote. In one outlying area, four chiefs were arrested for registering 500 children under ten years old. In Lagos, pols tried to register an entire high school en masse...