Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singers & Cynics. When at last Adenauer returned to Victoria Station to entrain for Gatwick Airport, a small crowd (among them some Germans) astounded the Chancellor and everyone else by breaking raggedly into the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be...
FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C...
Chou En-lai's note had fulminated in the Communist manner against the "sinister" forces "searching for "every chance to disrupt the great friendship between India and China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border...
A special U.N. subcommittee had reported that it could find no positive proof of actual aggression from Communist North Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 16), and Russia crowed that Laos' charges had collapsed "like a card castle." At this point, Hammarskjold quietly announced that he himself would fly to get...
Once more Hammarskjold had taken the initiative to get the U.N. "presence" felt without running the risk of a Security Council veto or running afoul of the General Assembly's volatile political alignments. Hammarskjold himself likes to talk of the necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence...