Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This new Democratic self-confidence causes Party Chairman Steve Mitchell to worry. He thinks all Democratic candidates should run scared this fall; that way the party will sustain activity at the local level. But at the dinner Mitchell seemed to enjoy the rousing, gleeful speeches...
...that, if the British agreed on "united action," he would be able to ask Congress. The British agreed only to "examine the possibility." The French took somewhat the same attitude, though they still talked of an air strike. As Laniel explained last week: "All solutions which might help a local situation, that of Dienbienphu, were studied, [but] we refused before the Geneva Conference to accept solutions which might risk a generalized conflict...
Last week there were signs that recriminations between the allies were dying down and new ways of getting together were being sought. De Castries' last stand had stirred Britain's admiration. Wrote London's influential Daily Telegraph: "The local lesson of Dienbienphu is that the Red Delta must be defended, not abandoned." Added the Spectator: "The fact that Britain and the U.S. ... decided not to attempt the virtually impossible-the relief of Dienbienphu-does not mean that they should refuse to attempt the possible-the effective defense of large remaining areas of Indo-China...
...among the Communists. Over the past few weeks, some 40 suspect jungle fighters have been strangled, buried alive or beaten to death with rifle butts, according to British army sources. After a formal inquiry into the executions, the Communists' own Central Executive has admitted that in some cases, local Communist regimental commanders have acted too hastily...
...much a victim of hard knocks as they. Before 1943 he taught drawing at the Fine Arts School in Kaunas, the capital of his native Lithuania. Then the Nazis shipped him off as a slave laborer to an East Prussian farm. There Kasiulis milked cows and painted portraits of local German bigwigs, a service for which he was rewarded with extra food rations. After the war, helped by sympathetic Allied officers, he made his way to Paris, where he got a job as a nightwatchman. By night he patrolled a radio shop with a revolver; by day he visited...