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Wrote the Berlin Kurier: "To anyone with a feeling for national dignity, it might seem unpleasant to bargain for the Fatherland as for a carpet or a camel in the Orient. But bargaining it must be." Despite such a willing audience, Molotov failed badly in his efforts to appeal to the Germans. The West Germans-even those who thought that by bargaining away EDC they might get a reunited nation-were shocked at Molotov's bland dismissal of free elections as "parliamentary procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Muffled Response | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...fleece them. Martin Kane has changed its leading man four times (William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, Mark Stevens)-oftener than it has changed its plot. Two crime shows, China Smith and Du Mont's Colonel Humphrey Flack are played for laughs, while two others, Foreign Intrigue and Orient Express, gain some freshness of face and background by being filmed and largely cast in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dead on Arrival | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

American travelers are often shocked at the ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...himself, and he was still officially in office until last week. Goglidze, "the czar of Soviet Siberia," controlled an area almost as big as the U.S. and was responsible, under Beria, for the vast new arms plants that Moscow hopes will one day supply the Red armies in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Policeman on Trial | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...dams as well as replacing low dams (that become useless when river waters are low) with high dams. The government also has a $1 billion roads program and plans for a new Tokyo reservoir that will require the sixth highest dam in the world and the biggest in the Orient (480 ft. high, 1,122 ft. long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Japanese Sandmen | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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