Word: non-communist
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...nation that started and lost two world wars last week undertook to make good its huge international debts, that come in the wake of wars. In a "financial peace treaty" signed in London with 18 nations, bustling West Germany assured creditors in 30 non-Communist lands that their claims will be honored. Germany pledged to pay out $3.27 billion in the next 35 years. Half the total represents worldwide German debts that started mounting up in 1918, and were finally repudiated by Hitler. American private investors who bought German bonds under the Dawes and Young Plans have been promised...
Many a devout French Red believes that if only Maurice Thorez would come back from Russia, things would get better. Thorez, party boss in France, suffered a stroke in 1950, went to Russia for treatment, has not been seen in France since; many a non-Communist believes that he is dead. Last week L'Huma published a picture of a sickly Maurice Thorez with wife (see cut), claiming that it had been taken in Russia on Feb. 1 of this year. To skeptical Frenchmen, neither the photography nor the claim proved anything-except that Moscow wants the French faithful...
...were simply taking out Rückversicherung, which literally means "back insurance." This is the German word for forehanded protection against occupation by the Russians, if it should come. There are many varieties of Rückversicherung: wealthy Hamburg businessmen who keep yachts fueled and supplied for quick getaways; non-Communist Germans who carry Communist Party cards just in case; Ruhr industrialists who protect their eastern plants by buying expensive advertising in Communist newspapers...
Under pressure from Washington, non-Communist shipments to Red China are dwindling. Example: in 1951, Malaya sent the Reds $32 million worth of natural rubber; last year, it sent practically none. Even Hong Kong's busy entrepot trade is quietly stagnating: monthly exports to the mainland dropped from $22.8 million in 1951 to $8.2 million last year...
Rubber for Rice. Three non-Communist nations resist U.S. pressure. Egyptian cotton deliveries to Chinese Communist ports doubled in the past year; Pakistan's jumped from $45 million in 1951 to $54 million in the first six months of 1952. Most alarming of all, Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth, recently signed a five-year agreement to send 250,000 tons of rubber to the Red mainland. The U.S. had offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition...