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Said Robertson later: "The United Nations Command now can go ahead and sign ... I have confidence that President Rhee will carry out his commitments. He has promised not to obstruct an armistice now or in the post-armistice period." It is understood that Rhee will take no action of his own for approximately six months-that is, until three months after the start of the political conference. In return, the U.S. promised South Korea substantial economic aid. and a security pact (with the explicit understanding that it requires Senate consent) to go to Rhee's aid if the Communists...
...vote on Bohlen showed that McCarthy has no substantial following in the Senate. He can obstruct, he can attract attention, he can embarrass. (So can Wayne Morse.) But the pundits who say that the Administration must either appease McCarthy or destroy him in all-out political war were proved wrong by last week's events. McCarthy is still using ammunition left around by the Truman Administration, and he has profited a little from tactical mistakes of the Eisenhower team. Certainly the first, and probably the second, are vote-getting assets for McCarthy...
Both Duncan and Gandhi were arrested-exactly as they had planned-when they rejoined Duncan's wife Cynthia, waiting in their automobile. Next day, along with 36 other defendants (6 whites, 18 Indians, 12 Africans), they were charged with "inciting Negroes to resist, break or obstruct" apartheid laws. Most white South Africans seemed to disapprove of Duncan's action. Reproving him for "deluding the Negroes," the liberal Johannesburg Star coldly observed that passive resistance, by frightening the whites, "strengthens the hand of reaction and repression...
...spreading from limb to limb and country to country in Western Europe. The new phrase, Cold Peace (TIME, Oct. 20)-the notion that Europe can trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense...
...Judge Johnson was later indicted for "conspiracy to obstruct justice and to defraud .the Government" along with nine relatives and friends. Four were not tried because of the statute of limitations. Johnson and two relatives were acquitted, but the remaining three were convicted...