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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas! who serves his country often serves A most ungrateful mistress, even thy merit Offends the Senate; with a jealous eye It views thy greatness...
Outside Europe. 1959's changes mostly reflect what the optimists call "creative abdication" of empire and the pessimists call retreat. But to the surprise of many, including the participants, an independence movement that begins as a protest against the West, taking help where it can find it, often ends by discovering that its freedom has to be as jealously maintained against another outsider...
Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
...Bombay Current put it last week, complaining about Nehru's trust in Communist promises: "A time has come in India when the free man is not prepared to stake his freedom on Mr. Nehru's wobbly judgment. The oracle of New Delhi is proving too often wrong in his prophecies...
...fiasco, botched by bad planning, and straining fields, farmers and transport. Red China had already sheepishly begun to retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately to keep a wheat crop, badly weakened by unseasonably warm weather in the spring, from toppling over...