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...like good neighbors" without "frightening or fearing each other." In the light of Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together for the defense of the subcontinent. A columnist in the respected Times of India called for a summit meeting between Ayub and Nehru to arrange an Indo-Pakistan alliance that "would constitute a powerful factor making for stability in Asia...
...defined and actively waged the cold war in those terms. "The arena is vast," he wrote in his book, War or Peace. "It embraces the whole world, and all political, military, economic and spiritual forces within it." And as he handled the unending procession of Communist-made crises-Korea, Indo-China, Formosa Strait, Iran, Guatemala, Jordan, Lebanon, Quemoy, Berlin-he threw into the cold struggle all of freedom's political, military, economic, spiritual strength. Specifically...
...week. He informed Red China, through India's neutralist Prime Minister Nehru, that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly...
Ominous 13. The Algiers colonels' revolt of last May was dramatic proof of the disaffection that 14 years of losing colonial wars in Indo-China and North Africa had engendered in French professional officers. Just how deep that disaffection went is now the talk of Paris as the result of a new book by two top French newsmen, the brothers Serge and Merry Bromberger, who call the Algiers uprising a fusion of 13 distinct conspiracies ("the 13 plots...
...Moral. The authority granted General Ely last week is both a consequence and a symbol of the vast new peacetime role De Gaulle has given France's army. Famed for courage-Ely wears the Croix de guerre with six citations (both World Wars and Indo China), still carries his arm in a sling as a result of a World War II wound-France's top active soldier has rare prestige with the French officer corps...