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...Paris last fortnight, Dulles analyzed the situation for the NATO foreign ministers' council. Said he: "At the present time, the U.S. is being subjected to the most severe kind of provocation in Asia. This appears to be deliberately planned in the hope of provoking the U.S. into actions which our European friends and allies would regard as ill-advised and which would perhaps shake our unity at a time when we hope it will be reinforced by the pending London-Paris accords. The U.S. does not intend thus to be hastily provoked into needless action." This highly practical talk...
...that Abakumov, "having been placed in the post of Minister of State Security by Beria, was a direct participant in the criminal subversive group that carried out Beria's orders." Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia's World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited by Soviet...
Soekarno's friends say that he was alarmed by the narrowness of Sastroa-midjojo's majority on a parliamentary vote of confidence a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Though a Moslem himself, Soekarno also fears that the opposition Masjumi (Moslem) Party, which is the largest political party in the predominantly (90%) Moslem republic, would make Indonesia a theocratic state if it came to power. Others, less charitable, find an explanation for Soekarno's behavior in his ambition to become the Nehru of Indonesia. During a recent visit to the island of Bali with Soekarno, Nehru...
Case Reopened. Djilas paid quickly for being a heretic: he was purged from all jobs. Last fortnight Dedijer and Djilas' ex-wife were summoned before the Central Committee's powerful three-man control commission and told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew...
...example, a year ago the editor of the monarchist paper ABC, one of the biggest dailies in the country (circ. 90,000), was removed by the government for publishing "news and editorials contrary to official policy." A fortnight ago Franco's Falange party struck at ABC again by drastically cutting its newsprint quota, after the paper neglected to print a "required" editorial praising government candidates for public office. So strong is government censorship that neither the actions against ABC nor the proposed new press law have been reported in the country. When the New York Times's international...