Word: machinate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the technicians came the machin ery of a Communist police state; last year Toure's goons were busily cleaning up the opposition with clubs and guns. The passive Guineans learned the lesson quickly, and today Guinea is docile and orderly. Now Toure is trying to whip up support for his "human investment" program, in which "volunteers" on the Chinese model are supposed to spend their idle hours building highways and schools. But being Guineans, the human investors do more dancing and laughing than shoveling, for hard work is neither traditional nor wise in the West African...
Some of the European powers, though ready to continue the U.N. game, now talk about some new Atlantic alliance that could serve as a counterweight. Charles de Gaulle dismisses the U.N. as "ce machin" (that thingumabob). France has stubbornly refused to contribute any support to the Congo operation. Britain has never felt the same about the U.N. since Suez. Last week Paul-Henri Spaak, who was the first president of the U.N. Assembly in 1946, declared himself "disillusioned" by the way the U.N. was trending-as well he might, being Belgian. "The Assembly now wants to use force to solve...