Word: forswearing
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...aggression, even by conventional forces, would be met by nuclear retaliation, had roused a fresh hubbub of demands to ban the hydrogen bomb, to abandon nuclear weapons, to refuse the U.S.-made Thor rockets. Thousands attended meetings organized by 85-year-old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wants Britain to forswear its nuclear weapons as an example to mankind. Urged on by the Daily Herald, 70 Laborite M.P.s backed a "Victory for Socialism" group, dedicated to rejecting the U.S. missiles. Last week Sandys faced the House in the midst of what had become a national debate...
...full-fledged membership in the British Commonwealth last August, Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman immediately dispatched a message into the jungles (TIME, Sept. 16). Its net: if Communist terrorists still holding out after nine years of costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
Showing the Flag. At the moment, Russia's happiest hunting ground was the Middle East. Last week Moscow got off diplomatic notes about the situation there to the U.S., Britain and France. Ostensibly just a renewal of last April's bland proposals that the Big Four forswear the use of force in the Mideast, the notes actually added up to a device to win an Arab audience for the charges that France was planning "a military alliance with Israel," that Britain had committed aggression in Oman and Yemen, that the U.S. was plotting against the Egyptian and Syrian...
...terrorists (down from 8,000) still left and, just to make sure everyone gets the message, will drop no less than 12 million leaflets from R.A.F. planes. Terms: no persecution of terrorists who surrender, regardless of their past crimes; restoration of civil rights to those who forswear Communism; free repatriation to Red China of those who do not. The offer holds good until Dec. 31, and after that the war will be pursued "with increased vigor...
...Japan surrendered nearly 8,500,000 soldiers, 102 warships, 3,000 warplanes, and a year later in its new, U.S.-dictated constitution vowed: "Land, sea and air forces . . . will never be maintained." Four years later it fell to General Douglas MacArthur, who had persuaded and forced Japan to forswear arms, to urge Japan to reverse itself. Thirteen days after the North Koreans attacked in 1950, he asked the Japanese to increase their constabulary...