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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland, where anti-German feeling still runs high and subservience to Moscow remains a law of life, the only audible answer to all these German overtures was a snarl of Communist fury. Standing in a drizzling rain to address an anniversary gathering of 20.000 people, Poland's Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz cried that Adenauer hopes "to drive a wedge between Poland and the Soviet Union." As for Adenauer's claim that Germany's final repudiation of Hitler was demonstrated by German cheers last week for Dwight Eisenhower, "the victorious army leader against Hitler's Germany," that, said...
...word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June. Clearly, the Imam's particular brand of peace was about to return to Arabia Felix...
...High and dry on the sun-blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept...
Career Diplomat Philip Wilson Bonsai took on his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba last February full of high hopes and the desire to "get to know Fidel Castro personally." He at first counseled patience with Castro's erratic behavior. But for the past three months, while U.S. citizens were arrested by whim and the $850 million U.S. investment in Cuba was threatened with confiscatory decrees...
...Duplessis' civil-rights policies would have been incredible anywhere else in North America: the notorious Padlock Law for political groups he deemed "Communist," his harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses, the brutal record of his tough provincial cops in labor disputes. Duplessis was sometimes at odds with high Catholic churchmen, but in rural areas, Le Chef, le pere, and the preservation of the faith were indivisible...