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...banks and businesses belong to foreigners, and the hosts suffer from both the weakness of envy and the need for cash. Last month Burma's government nationalized 14 foreign banks, and this month Nyasaland seized a German-controlled brewery on the pretext that its beer was designed to lull natives out of any fight for independence. Last week in Manhattan, even while seeking U.S. aid, Brazil's Finance Minister San Thiago Dantas reaffirmed his country's intention to nationalize all foreign utilities. The U.S. State Department accepts the likelihood that before long almost all Latin American nations...
...Some political philosophers complain of a 'tired lull' and the absence at present of argument on general politics in this country." wrote British Historian Lewis Namier before his death in 1960. "Practical solutions are sought for concrete problems, while programs and ideals are forgotten by both parties. But to me this attitude seems to betoken a greater national maturity, and I can only wish that it may long continue undisturbed by the workings of political philosophy...
With the mud and fog of Yemen's winter came a lull in the fighting between royalist guerrillas and the rebels who overthrew Imam Mohamed el Badr three months ago. But the danger remained that the distant little struggle could bring bloody conflict to other parts of the Middle East. In the hopes of isolating the feud, President Kennedy rushed off notes to Egypt's Nasser, Crown Prince Feisal of Saudi Arabia, Jordan's King Hussein and Rebel Leader Abdullah al Sallal, who now calls himself President of Yemen...
Critical Question. After the President's press conference, a sense of lull settled over the nation. The 63 ships that comprised the blockade force steamed back toward their home ports. The Pentagon announced that 14,200 Air Force reservists, called up at the height of the Cuba crisis, were being released. In a Thanksgiving message, President Kennedy said that "there is much for which we can be grateful as we look back to where we stood only four weeks...
...Chinese thrust came after a ten-day lull in the fighting and was apparently aimed at driving down the Luhit River valley toward India's important oil fields at Digboi, 90 miles from Walong, in the North East Frontier Agency. The Chinese seized a mountain slope above Walong, but Indian troops "went into an attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors...