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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Gaulle is determined to carry the army along with him. By artfully reassigning the principal military malcontents, by paying close attention to the military's fears and hopes, he has brought the army along to grudging acceptance of his offer of Algerian self-determination. Last week came the first military challenge to De Gaulle's authority. It came from the only living Marshal of France-cantankerous, Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, 70, whose once prestigious role in French affairs has diminished over the past five years as a result of ill-timed and ill-conceived forays into military politicking...
...troublemakers among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must be our course of action in Algeria," no less sternly demanded of the army "devotion and discipline...
Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., in theory the supreme political authority of Russia. Meeting for the first time since December 1958, the 1,378 assorted welders, milkmaids, bureaucrats, and novelists who are delegates were allowed to endorse Russia's new 1960 budget...
Risk of Trouble. Poland is in further trouble in its foreign trade. Although sales of coal, the nation's biggest export, have slumped sharply, Poland's imports are soaring. The balance of payments deficit-$142 million last year-rose to $120 million in the first six months of 1959 alone...