Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indians like to say that it resembles the isolationism formerly practiced by the U.S.. but it has moral overtones which, Nehru claims, grow out of "Indian culture and our philosophic outlook.'' Actually, it owes as much to Nehru's rather oldfashioned, stereotyped, left-wing attitudes acquired during the '20s and '30s ("He still remembers all those New Statesmen leaders." says one bitter critic) as it does to Gandhian notions of nonviolence. Nehru has never been able to rid himself of the disastrous cliche that holds Communism to be somehow progressive and less...
...India to the hilt. There is a significant indication of one Chinese anxiety in the cease-fire offer. After warning that renewed war will "bring endless disaster to India," Peking says: "Particularly serious is the prospect that if U.S. imperialism is allowed to become involved, the present conflict will grow into a war in which Asians are made to fight Asians, entirely contrary to the fundamental interests of the Indian people." Implicit in those words are Red Chinese memories of the prolonged Korean war. which ended in a gory stalemate...
...right-wing parties, some of whose leaders have already proposed such a merger. Such a realignment should greatly reduce the danger that, after De Gaulle. France will return to the chaos of the Fourth Republic. But this will depend in large measure on whether the U.N.R. can grow into something more than an appendage to Charles de Gaulle's personal prestige. Anti-Gaullists are fond of pointing out that De Gaulle's ministers have no policies-until De Gaulle announces them. For the present, De Gaulle's rule is so personal that his favor may be more...
...report was prepared by a team headed by respected French Economist Pierre Uri. It predicted that over the next decade West Germany's gross national product will grow more slowly than that of any other major Common Market nation save Belgium (whose economy is only one-fifth as big as West Germany's). By 1970, said the Uri group, the average French worker will be producing $4,608 worth of goods and services a year v. $3,905 for the average German...
...faced beauty who promenades every day along the quay with her little white spitz, Ralph. Dimitri has a wife, a pince-nezed intellectual, back in Moscow; Anna's husband is a foppish flunky in Saratov. As they become friends and lovers, Anna's unhappiness and self-recrimination grow stronger: Dimitri at length returns to Moscow to face the winter and his wife's domineering. Then, aboard a tram one day, he sees a little white dog go scampering through the snowy streets...