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...observers, the answer goes far beyond the 52,000 sq. mi. of border territory claimed by China. India, by a mixture of planning, incentive and free enterprise, has made undeniable strides out of poverty, in glaring contrast to Red China's inhuman regimentation, which has brought nothing but hardship and near famine. The invasion may be aimed at disrupting India's political and economic life. In broadcast after broadcast, Peking hammered at India's "retrograde economic system...
...armchair historian, often as ignorant of the Revolutionary War as he is overinformed about the Civil War, Washington's suffering at Valley Forge may rank as the outstanding example of hardship heroically endured in the American Revolution. But the Continental Army spent only one terrible winter at Valley Forge. In the populous East, as Historian Van Every points out in this workmanlike second book of a projected four-volume history of The Frontier People of America (the first book was the well-received Forth to the Wilderness), "the war struck as a succession of violent but passing storms." Boston...
None of this was likely to cause much hardship. There is a severe labor shortage in most of France just now, and both G.M. and Remington had already lined up new jobs for 80% of the men they were laying off. Nonetheless, news of the firings provoked a storm of resentment; at the G.M. Frigidaire plant, Catholic and Communist unions joined in a protest demonstration. More ominous yet, French Minister of Industry Michel Maurice-Bokanowski hustled to the unions' support, thundering: "In the future, new foreign investment programs, particularly from U.S. firms, must be examined with greatest care...
...allay the tensions it breeds. One way of easing misery would be to establish an international commission to repatriate divided families; as it becomes more and more hazardous to escape from East Germany, Ulbricht's regime might welcome the measure of respectability to be derived from reuniting hardship cases-even though the traffic would be overwhelmingly...
...while she found the German middle class "pedantic and small," she found in the workers' way of life "greatness and scope ... I simply found it beautiful." Later, after her doctor husband established a practice in the workers' section of North Berlin, she came to know firsthand the "hardship and tragedy" of her husband's patients. When her 18-year-old son Peter was killed in World War I, her sense of tragedy deepened. The bronze monument she designed for him, showing the two parents grieving, was agony in itself; it took her 18 years to finish...