Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident symbolized the main question about Indonesia's future. As one Indonesian put it last week, "the republic was ours; we made something of it. What are the Dutch going to put in its place...
...Maharaja of Jaipur put on a good show. For the first post-independence session of the All-India Congress he sponsored a rousing parade down the main streets of Jaipur city. First came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks...
...government's main task," he said, "must be to increase its strength militarily and administratively . . . If we can't fight, we can't talk about peace. The nation will have no chance to survive." The Premier seemed to be saying that Nationalist China was ready for conditional peace, but was determined to struggle on as long as possible against unconditional surrender...
...Probably no one outside of the Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond...
...Their main target was the Hope-Aiken Act (TIME, June 28), under which the Government is free to lower price supports from 90% to 60% of parity after 1950. Led by Georgia's white-haired H. L. Wingate, the Southerners fought a three-day battle behind closed committee doors for a resolution urging Congress to repeal the Hope-Aiken Act, keep price supports at 90% of parity...