Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wooded park two miles from Bang-Jensen's Long Island home came across Bang-Jensen's body sprawled beside a leaf-strewn bridle path, a bullet hole in his temple. Near by lay a stubby, .25-cal. automatic. In his pocket police found a farewell note addressed to his wife. The police verdict: suicide.* Said the Danish newspaper Information: "This is murder, in whatever way it happened...
...ownership. I believe in what Hugh Gaitskell said yesterday, because I don't believe in a monolithic society with public ownership of everything. But we'll never have order until we have a planned economy, an economy in which the nation determines its own priorities." On this note, the party inquest ended: Nye Bevan had chosen to differ but not to rebel, and Hugh Gaitskell had received an unenthusiastic mandate to bring Labor's philosophy up to date with mid-century Britain...
INDIA A Letter for Chou In New Delhi last week, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave a last reading to his note to China's Chou Enlai, signed it and dispatched it to Peking. It was a strong answer. Nehru firmly rejected Chou's proposal that both Indian and Chinese troops withdraw 12 ½ miles from their present positions, which, in the cases of Ladakh and Longju, are deep inside Indian territory...
Chou En-lai's note had fulminated in the Communist manner against the "sinister" forces "searching for "every chance to disrupt the great friendship between India and China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border," and concluded grimly that "we have to face the realities of a situation, and the present situation is that relations between our two countries are likely to grow worse...
...that comes closest to satisfying Tange's new ideal is his Kagawa Prefectural Office, completed last year. With its massive exposed beams rising in tiers, ceramic Zen symbols emblazoned on its walls, and a rock garden in the tradition of the Ryoanji Temple, it strikes an unmistakably Japanese note in the modern idiom of reinforced concrete. As well as recalling the past, Tange believes his building must also "make an image of our new social structure." For Tange this means the new democracy in which citizens are now invited to become part of the government. To welcome them...