Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Granted, you have won. Knowing what you started from. General de Gaulle, one takes off one's hat to you. But now what are you going to do? Rely on the Anglo-Saxons? They will treat you as a satellite. Range yourself with the Soviets? They will impose their rule on France and liquidate you. The only way to win greatness and independence for your nation is by an entente with beaten Germany. If you master the spirit of revenge, if you seize the opportunity that history offers you today, you will be the greatest man of all time...
Finance Minister Morarji Desai angrily set out to get the facts about the Red road. Cross-questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side...
...occupying Indian territory, Krishna Menon was rising in the U.N. to champion the admission of Peking and to lead the fight against debating the Tibet tragedy. The Hindustan Times fumed about Menon's "immoral and degrading performances." Indian students paraded in New Delhi, shouting "Menon resign! Menon resign!" General Thimayya quarreled with Menon and threatened to leave the army. Nehru talked him out of it. With his hesitant response to China's calculated attack on the Indian patrol in Ladakh, Nehru lost his once unshakable hold on the nation's intellectuals, business leaders and press. With almost...
...smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova is in reality 2nd Lieut. Lydia Danuta de Lipski, one of France's greatest Resistance fighters. Last week the French government prepared to add the Legion of Honor medal to the Croix de guerre with bronze star awarded her by General Charles de Gaulle...
Ever since General Ne Win took power in Burma 14 months ago, he has worked conscientiously at clearing Rangoon's garbage-strewn streets, cracking down on Communist rebels in the northern jungles, improving the balance between the nation's agriculture and light industry. But he was one soldier who meant his often expressed desire to step down as soon as possible. Burma's politicians, whose squabbling and corrupt ways led to the military takeover in the first place, got a go-ahead last month with Ne Win's promise of elections in late January or early...