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...Stunted Bodies." When Belgium was overrun by German troops, Hoover traveled to Berlin and to secret German field headquarters, let top officers believe that the U.S. might enter the war unless they permitted him to bring in food for starving Belgians. In London and Paris, he warned the French and English of likely U.S. indignation unless they eased their blockade to facilitate such shipments. After such tactics succeeded, Hoover supervised the shipment of a billion dollars worth of food and clothing to Belgium, directed a fleet of 60 cargo ships and 400 barges, crossed the mine-filled North...
Cyprus remains a powder keg surrounded by careless smokers. Chief among them is bearded, baffling Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, whose attempt to overrun the Turkish Cypriot beachhead at Kokkina brought swift retaliation from Turkey in the form of jet fighters. What Makarios could not win by force, he now tried to gain by blockade. Bowing to the ceasefire order of the U.N. Security Council, Makarios fixed a grip of iron around the 80 villages and the fortified quarters of the cities that house the 100,000 people of the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...From there, if need be, there would be general punishment of North Viet Nam from the air; one reported plan calls for bombing, after a week's notice in advance (to minimize civilian casualties), any one of 200 North Vietnamese villages each time a South Vietnamese village was overrun. Another contingency plan, falling somewhere in between: blockading or mining Ho Chi Minh's ports...
...Adlai Stevenson said that we cannot stand by while Southeast Asia is overrun by aggressors. I agree with him completely, and I have only one simple question: Why do we? The only way we will ever stop armed aggressors from taking over countries in Asia is to fight them with our most advanced and modern weapons. REX WHETZEL Wolcottville...
Gems by Mail. Demand for diamonds has overrun the supply in the last few years, largely because producers do not want to exhaust their uncertain sources at the mines, and dealers like to keep the prices in the way-up-there brackets. Last week South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines-which markets 80% of the world's diamonds and sells only when, where, and to whom it deigns-announced that stocks were little more than half as high as a year ago. There have been two wholesale-price increases, totaling 15%, in the past 15 months. Jewelers...