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Eighteen months have passed since Red Chinese troops occupied 12,000 square miles of northern Indian soil. The troops are still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...
...they could not block it with their minority of 84 votes out of a total 212 in the lower house. They resorted to jeers and interruptions, finally provoked fist fights on the floor with Eyskens' Liberal-Christian coalition Deputies. Then the strikes began, and in town after town pent-up frustration exploded with the fury of a coiled spring. First out were the solid, dependable teachers and low-level provincial employees. Then, unexpectedly, thousands of postal workers, railroad engineers, electricity and gas plant workers, coal miners and dockers downed tools in the factory-filled French-speaking south, where...
Room for Maneuver. Within France itself, the pent-up hopes and fears of all the years burst out in an ugly backwash of bitterness. De Gaulle found himself caught between a left demanding that France negotiate peace and a right insisting that war be waged to the bitter end. In Paris last week, 200 cops manned the gates and roofs of the Palais de Justice as Pierre Lagaillarde, cocky right-wing leader of the January insurrection, went on trial with 19 others for insurrection against the state. In Algiers, police cordoned the squares to head off threatened protest riots...
...terms other than those dictated by their immediate neighborhood. Most young people who live in slums regard the world beyond as enemy territory. They cannot conceive of themselves in any jobs other than the ones their parents hold down. These feelings breed a stricter loyalty to the gang; the pent-up emotions they imply can only express themselves in violence...
...good riddance." Hearst's New York Journal-American besought all New York to join in 60 seconds of silence "as a mute memorial to victims of Red tyranny," and later headlined a story of a few anti-Communist demonstrations in New York: HATE ROARS OVER CITY LIKE A PENT-UP FLOOD. But it was left to a paper in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. to set a dubious sort of journalistic record...