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...cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME, Oct. 18) his Foreign Minister. He has been praising Red China's "village Communism," even suggesting that India should consider adopting some Red Chinese...
...platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn-out rolling stock. Worse yet, they were forced to entrust the battered cars to reckless motormen, who trundled them through the city like juggernauts. As a result, accidents were frequent...
Bostonians remember Charlie Ponzi. He was the little man's financeer, the one who promised an impossibly high interest rate to anyone who would entrust their money to him, spent a little cash paying off the first installments, and then sat back while the public, its good sense overawed by its desire to be millionaires overnight, magnified his initial pittance into an imposing fund of capital. The inevitable bust left many scars, but apparently it all happened so long ago that people have forgotten what this sort of charlatanism looked like...
Belgrade rushed troops, tanks and horse artillery to Zone B. Before a rally of 100,000 Yugoslavs, Tito fired tempers further: he demanded a different Trieste solution-one which would entrust to Italy only the city and give all the rest to Yugoslavia-and warned that, unless it is accepted, "there will be no peace in this part of Europe." "We would give up [Western] aid," said Tito, "but we will never give up these interests." Then he vowed that if Italy sends in troops to occupy Zone A, Yugoslavia will consider it "an act of aggression" and send...
...Lilienthal the situation is especially vivid. He remembers those nervous years after VJ Day when our friendship with Russia was cooling rapidly. At that time, the government was well-satisfied to entrust its defense to a cheap, and supposedly invincible, stockpile of atom bombs...