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From a Teletype within the United Nations' slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and means to stop the shooting and avert a full-scale war over the question of Formosa. R.S.V.P...
...reduced cost has cut the sum needed from student contributions from $1,500 to $600. And the drive for this amount has already passed the halfway mark, with $321.87 collected after one week of dining hall solicitation...
...evening, a group of us foreign students saw a film history of the city. In the back of the room sat a number of professors and German guests. Halfway through the action came a Chaplinesque scene of soldiers goose-stepping down Unter Den Linden to 3 rally. "Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!" sounded from the rear and lasted until the scene was over. The laughter was neither pleasant nor bitter. It was something eerie to be turned on land off at a signal...
...Peking last week, a slim, well-tailored Swede, representing the collective conscience of the United Nations, wrestled with the masters of China for the liberties of eleven U.S. airmen, jailed by the Communists as "spies." To some, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission was a humiliation: traveling halfway around the world to beg justice for innocent men. But in eleven U.S. cities, from Redding, Calif. (the home of 22-year-old Air Gunner Daniel Schmidt) to Lewisburg, Pa. (the home of Pilot William H. Baumer), the families of the airmen thought only of the chance that, perhaps...
...Democratic Congress lies a broad area of agreement. In two critical fields--foreign trade and foreign aid--the President stands to get a heavy measure of Democratic support. The Republican Congress which President Eisenhower carried into office in 1952 showed little appetite for either. Even the halfway "trade--not aid" policy stalled and was finally abandoned. With the new Democratic Congress, both trade and aid will get more serious consideration...