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...complete agreement with the Indo-Pakistani press on the topic. Our students trained abroad can get brides of much better caliber and higher polish back home...
Canal v. Desert. Last week Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew into Karachi on his first visit in seven years. The occasion: the signing of an Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign...
...uncommonly apathetic. But like the skilled spellbinder he is. Sukarno finally got his audience roaring with a burst of demagogic thunder in which he attacked The Netherlands for sending an aircraft carrier and 1,000 troop reinforce ments to neighboring Dutch New Guinea - which Sukarno claims is part of Indo nesia and properly called "West Irian." Sneering at The Netherlands as a "country of small creditors that still preserves its taste for colonialism," Sukarno wound up by announcing the breaking off of diplo matic relations with the Dutch. In The Netherlands, his oratory was received with a shrug. After nationalizing...
...remarked. "I can only conclude that the man who writes the speeches is still the same"). While Nixon took on special presidential commissions and presided over the Cabinet in the days of Ike's illnesses. Lodge carefully steered the U.S. and the West through U.N. world tempests from Indo-China to Budapest to Suez. Nixon's tough, unflinching "kitchen conference" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during his U.S. tour. (Khrushchev's favorite cry: "Where's my capitalist?") Both men have learned...
Apparently, France learned a hard lesson from its disastrous experience in Indo-China. Unlike Belgium, which never even allowed an election in the Congo until two and a half years ago, France has been systematically preparing her African territories for independence. Since the end of World War II, French African states have had elected assemblies responsible for the machinery of local government. In addition, the territories elected deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, where they picked up considerable political experience on an international scale-and let a little French culture rub off on them. African army officers were schooled...