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...Even delivery to Communist North Viet Nam has lagged. Despairing of ever receiving $320 million promised by the Chinese in 1955, the Vietnamese finally, in 1959 and 1960, turned to Russia for firmer help. In an attempt to save face, Red China has negotiated a new agreement which incorporates the defaulted aid (similar face-saving pacts were recently concluded with Nepal and Cambodia...
...Tokyo. The same advice was given by Ambassador MacArthur. The experts reasoned that pro-American elements in Japan would prevail and the President could be assured at least a reasonably cordial welcome. However, one wonders what those same experts meant when they hoped that the Japanese police would take firmer action. Are we to presume they meant that the police should open fire on the mob in order that the itinerary of a globe-trotting head of state would not be upset...
...that the Administration had dragged the U.S.'s international prestige to a "new low" by "bumbling and fumbling" during the U-2 dustup. The Administration's handling of the U-2 incident, said Arkansas' Fulbright, taking a slap at Dwight Eisenhower, showed a need for "much firmer direction of all governmental activities affecting foreign relations. If this is not to come from the White House, it should come from the State Department." Back came Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on Fulbright's committee, to defend the U-2 for a "record uniquely successful...
...last month, Rajagopalachari-known to India's millions simply as "C.R." -has been stumping through the North Indian cities and villages for his cause. His platform is modern: less government planning, more scope for free enterprise, a firmer stand against Communism and Chinese aggression. But his language is often reminiscent of the parables of the New Testament...
...heard by you." Quicker than a wink, Khrushchev plunked his glasses on his nose, whipped out a thick manuscript. He paid pointed tribute to President de Gaulle as the man who had not "bowed his head to the [German] occupiers." If France and the Soviet had only had a firmer alliance, he said, blandly ignoring his own country's 1939 pact with Hitler, Germany might never have dared start World War II. As it was, both France and Russia were littered with "unexploded bombs and shells . . . abandoned by the Hitlerians." Should German militarism rise again, France would...