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...Danube, this ancient heartland has become the newest area in the growing clash between the two Communist rivals. Long an inaccessible province of China, Outer Mongolia became the first Soviet satellite when the Reds pursued the Whites into Urga (later Ulan Bator), and remained to establish the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924. For the next generation, Moscow monopolized Mongolia's diplomatic and trade relations to the exclusion of all foreigners, and particularly the Chinese. Mongolia's wool and hides went westward to Russia, in exchange for a trickle of manufactured goods and swarms of political instructors...
...this outside aid has made striking changes in Mongolia. The sweeping mile-high plateau between the snowy Altai mountains and the Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide...
Broader Horizons. Mongolia's Premier Yumzhagiin Tsedenbal has dexterously used his pivotal position to try to acquire the status of an independent nation. He sent a Mongolian trade mission to Czechoslovakia last month to buy Czech machinery and equipment. Another delegation in Tokyo concluded a deal swapping Japanese machinery and equipment for animal products. Mongolia has established diplomatic relations not only with all the nations of the Soviet bloc, but also with such neutrals as India. Nepal, Burma. Yugoslavia. Cambodia and Guinea, and is bidding actively for U.S. recognition and U.N. membership...
...well-doing." What he actually wrote was a sort of sissified, Swissified Tarzan story, describing a number of innocently improbable adventures that took place on an amusingly improbable tropical island populated with an absolutely absurd fauna of Asiatic tigers, African lions, Australian kangaroos, Amazonian anacondas, North American grouse, Mongolian asses and Swiss prigs...
That afternoon Debre was still trying to explain that De Gaulle really wants to strengthen rather than weaken NATO when a messenger brought in a dispatch. Adenauer read it and, says a Frenchman, stood petrified, "a hard look in his Mongolian eyes." It was a news agency report of De Gaulle's speech at Grenoble demanding a veto for France on allied use of the nuclear bomb anywhere (TIME, Oct. 17). Pointing at the offending passage, he asked Debre: "What does this mean? If Khrushchev unleashes his rockets on us, must the allies remain paralyzed until France makes...