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...German air forces in North Africa, took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders on a map-room briefing, but through it shines the quiet pride of a good soldier who believes that a soldier's chief duty is to obey orders...
...French had a new colonial crisis on their hands last week in an obscure place on India's southeast coast called Pondicherry. One of four small enclaves (see map) which are all that remain of the once substantial French empire in India, Pondicherry (pop. 222,000) vibrated with the crises of anti-French demonstrators shouting for merger with India...
...long time Prime Minister Nehru has been trying to get the French to abandon Pondicherry and the other enclaves, which he calls "pimples on the map." But Nehru could get nowhere in Pondicherry so long as the French maintained good relations with Pondicherry's part-French Socialist leader, Edward Goubert, who controls 37 of 39 seats in the local assembly. Goubert supported the French, and the French supported Goubert-chiefly by not inquiring into his business activities...
...first; the borders of the drought area varied from year to year because of local weather conditions. In parts of Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois, for instance, rainfall has been far below normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more, and areas of Colorado, Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico have suffered dangerous drought...
...bloodstained Indo-China valley with a barely pronounceable name was transformed last week from a scratch on the map into one of the most important places in the world. At Dienbienphu, a faraway fortress overcast with gun smoke, 15,000 French troops fought a battle that could decide the fate of all Southeast Asia. Shock waves from the battle swept over Asia and Europe, endangering the French Cabinet, threatening the prospects of the European Army, menacing the unity of the Western Big Three as they prepare to meet the Big Two of Communism-Russia and China-at the Geneva Conference...