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...Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...
...unwilling to face serious reform in the country's economy. At the end of each month, they were compelled to borrow money to patch up the gaps. It was all very simple. The leaders of the old French regime promised the U.S. almost everything: a military victory in Indo-China. an enthusiastic vote for the EDC, ringing measures against the Communist Party, etc. All this in exchange for millions of dollars which bolstered the French deficits and enabled the State Department to display handsomely worded diplomatic communiques in its showcase...
...first part of the Mendes plan consisted of deflating illusions and facing facts. This is the story of Indo-China, and the story of EDC. The past has now been liquidated. The new regime must construct the future. The second stage opens with Mendès' economic plan. Two of its aims have top priority...
...their own governments, the reduction of armaments in the most heavily armed state in the world, Russia, and the cessation of Russian-inspired activities in other countries." Then Mao complained that the U.S. was "aggressive and was seeking to build up a ring of subordinate states from Japan to Indo-China. Whereupon I said: 'As Russia has done in Europe...
...Returning, he has told the startling truth about India in a clean, calm book. Author Redding's dismaying conclusion is that Indian democracy, never firm, is in deadly danger of Communist subversion. Some may think Redding exaggerates, but a world that scoffed at similar warnings from China and Indo-China might do well to take this one seriously...