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Scattered through Indonesia (whose 80 million people make it the world's largest Moslem state) is a minority of some 4,000,000 Christians. Last week A. M. Tambunan, leader of the Christian Party, submitted a memorandum to Parliament deploring a growing campaign of terror against his people in southern Celebes. Roving bands of Moslem terrorists in the Celebes, said he, have forced more than 6,000 Christians to adopt Islam under penalty of death. Many others have been tortured and killed. Bibles have been torn up and used as cigarette paper, while more than 20 churches have been...
...plan "en principe," Adenauer expected to get matters moving in the direction of a brass-tacks settlement. This would give Bidault and Premier Laniel a garland of good news with which to deck their demand for a parliamentary vote on EDC. But Bidault last week produced a new memorandum and said Germany would have to accept it. Its major new provision: no trade preferment for West Germany in the Saar until the common market for Europe is well under way. This meant granting Paris an indefinite veto over German trading rights in the Saar...
...Urgent Task. In the great mass of problems awaiting the President, the most urgent was the McCarthy issue. It was entwined with another problem: the supersensitive mood of Congress. The four Senators who talked Army Secretary Stevens into the hurtful "Memorandum of Understanding" were all Republicans, but they were acting as Senators arrayed against the Executive, not as Republicans arrayed against the Democrats. Even that solid Percheron of New Dealism, New York's Herbert Lehman, defended his last month's vote for McCarthy's committee appropriation by saying: "To withhold all funds from a legally constituted committee...
Mundt sat down at a typewriter and pecked out a "Memorandum of Understanding." Its four points...
Despite the last-minute nervousness, the West knows what it wants at Berlin. A cogent State Department memorandum to U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe put the objectives roughly as follows: ¶ To reach agreement on a free, unified Germany, and thus open the way to a general European settlement. ¶ Failing that, to establish that U.S. proposals represent the only means of reestablishing a free, united Germany. ¶ To show that Western proposals on Germany form part of a program which takes into account security requirements of all Europe, and the Soviet Union too. ¶ To throw light on Soviet...