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...resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports and to listen with sympathy, if not always full belief, to the arguments for continuing stringent exchange controls . . . My government believes that recovery has proceeded to a point where restrictions on trade imposed to meet the financial problems of a decade ago can no longer be justified...
Army. The 870,000-man Army could not take much of a cut if it was to keep any brush-fire or full-scale war capability. The Army will probably get $9.5 billion, about the same as last year, will make up for inflation by cutting back on already-lagging modernization, e.g., replacing the World War II M-1 rifle with the more up-to-date...
...week's end Nehru himself was beginning to talk tougher. Thousands cheered as he told a Congress Party rally that, though Red China is full of "the arrogance of might," India will not be intimidated. "China may be a big country, but India is not small," said Nehru. "We are not afraid. We are not weak...
...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 in the service of France...
Fortunately, to protect his eyes from the outside glare, he had long ago secured a cubicle removed from the windows. As the librarian had cheered him, it was "one of our less gay places." But the disturbance in the Square had been enough to take the full sharpness off Lucius' concentration, and before he knew what had happened, his mind was on that business down at the stadium...