Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This truism was evident in London last week. The 20th century reflex is to think of Britons and Germans as mortal enemies, and Britons and French as fond allies. But before the two World Wars, the opposite was more often the case. As late as the end of the 19th century, Britain's obvious partner in trade, diplomacy and royal bedrooms was Germany. "The natural alliance," said Salisbury's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain on Nov. 30, 1899, "is between ourselves and the great German Empire...
...rode to hounds and managed the family textile business until World War II, he helped plan the costly Arnhem operation and, at 44, insisted on going along. Breaking a thigh in jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture...
...week's end, the conference passed a resolution giving to Algerian rebels just about everything they asked. Equally important: Ghana, Liberia and Ethiopia, which had hitherto expressed only vague solidarity, seemed ready to offer material help, probably in the form of food. All in all, Yazid, who officially should not have been at Nkrumah's conference at all, came close to stealing the African Personality show...
Moving Center. At week's end the rebel leaders-Sjafruddin, Husein, Simbolon-were alternately reported heading for the mountains or in flight to North Celebes, where the banner of rebellion still fluttered at Menado. The Celebes' rebels had managed to buy a few B-26s "somewhere in the Pacific" and had already made bombing raids on government airfields. At Menado, too, was Colonel Alex E. Kawilarang, the former military attaché at the Indonesian embassy in Washington, who was named the rebel commander in chief. But if the rebellion could not flourish in rugged Sumatra...
...week's end signs were that Peking had overplayed its hand and overindulged its mouth. With elaborate unconcern, Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama predicted that the Chinese Reds would eventually "calm down" and trade with Japan anyway. And as he headed out into the rain for his annual cherryblossom-viewing party, Nobusuke Kishi ostentatiously shared his umbrella with Nationalist China's beaming Ambassador Shen Chin-ting...