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...create. They would rather see their own nations fall apart than continue their present relations with the West. Communism encouraged this state of mind, and stood to profit hugely from it. But Communism did not create it. The split between the West and the non-Communist East was a peril all its own to world order, quite apart from Communism. Through 1951 the Communist threat to the world continued; but nothing new was added-and little subtracted. The news of 1951 was this other danger in the Near and Middle East. In the center of that spreading web of news...
...Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril The Devil, having nothing else to do, Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue...
These difficulties pain hog-raisers as well as piglets, but conservative farmers consider them inherent hazards of the business, subject at best to minor improvements. Not all non-farmers, however, are quite so pessimistic. Last week, on a farm at Shoemakersville, Pa., platoons of little pigs were enjoying a peril-free infancy, courtesy of Chas. Pfizer & Co., manufacturers of pharmaceuticals (TIME...
...waterline in a forward compartment, the Small made Kure, Japan, under her own power, but eight of her crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises will have to live up to its defiant speeches. In Cairo, mobs this week rioted outside the U.S. and British embassies, until police fired, wounding eight. Fury thus turned on would not be so easily turned...