Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitably last week there was speculation that five-star Ambassador Murphy was resigning out of policy differences with Secretary of State Christian Herter. Not so, said Murphy with characteristically blunt diplomacy. "Why," said he, "this speculation is bunk. I even heard on some radio program that the reason that I was quitting was so I could be out of the State Department if the Democrats came in next year and this would make me available to be appointed Secretary of State. How crazy...
...Geneva, nor a breakoff from allies; the U.S. is prepared to go along with a British plan for joint U.S.-U.S.S.R.-British underground tests to improve detection techniques. Also, present plans are that the U.S. will bow to the worldwide outcry against radioactive fallout by resuming only underground tests -even though the restriction will hamper development of high-altitude nuclear anti-missile missiles...
...residence to demand stronger action, and the All-India Students' Congress called for mass demonstrations this week to mark "Throw Back the Aggressors Day"; other youths sought volunteers to man a "Himalayan Border Defense Organization." In London, Indian students inquired about returning home for military conscription. Even many Indian Communists were openly criticizing China's troublemaking...
...Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay's Free Press Journal, as angry readers' letters piled high on editors' desks. Millions now knew that the Prime Minister had for years shrugged off Chinese incursions into faraway Ladakh, Kashmir's northeast tip, had even let China cut a road through the district in 1957 without a challenge. Not until last week, when a trickle of troops moved in by air, did India even maintain army forces in the frontier area-and then only after the Chinese had shot up an Indian police patrol...
Would India fight to protect its northern borders? For the first time, the word "war" was on many lips. Some Indian editors were urging a military defense pact with Pakistan, and there were even suggestions that it was time to accept help from other non-Communist countries. On the northern borders, all frontier posts were transferred from the police to the Indian army, now commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese...