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...figures underscored a dramatic eastward shift of U.S. economic attention. In 1953 Europe got 66% of the nonmilitary aid and Far Eastern nations only 12%. In fiscal 1956, Asians received a whopping 58%. Non-Communist Europe, with its technical and economic houses clearly more in order, was down...
...request that it report back. Publicly, the Air Force replied that Zarubin could not have been talking about USAF planes because "no USAF planes have been flying over Soviet territory." Privately, U.S. airmen expressed surprise at the charges. In the past, the trigger-jumpy Russians have first shot down non-Communist planes in the vicinity of their borders, lodged their protests afterwards. If a U.S. plane had indeed been over Soviet territory for 2½ hours, it was a revealing insight into the state of Soviet defenses...
Both halves of the world-the non-Communist and the Communist-shook under the impact of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's no-longer-secret speech to the 20th Party Congress (TIME, June 11), but, whereas the non-Communists quickly absorbed the information given by Khrushchev, the Communists this week were still reeling...
...Congress last February, and (though barred from the secret session for Russians only) had read it in transcript. On returning to their own countries they remained silent about it, while inaugurating piecemeal efforts to downgrade Stalin. Last week, as large slabs of the speech hit the front pages of non-Communist European newspapers, the storm broke over the heads of the cautious...
...Western bases, and since bases on hostile ground are of little value, we shall soon have to go." Accepting this fact, the Guardian wondered whether Asian nations had examined the consequences: "In terms of a major war, Singapore and Ceylon are probably not important. [But] the military danger to non-Communist Asia is of minor wars, not of one major outbreak." Once the British withdraw, they cannot return on instant call; it takes weeks to make an abandoned base operational. Then it might be too late. "Not even an appeal by the United Nations-in the event, for example...