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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist government of China in fact proves its ability to govern China without serious domestic resistance, then it, too, should be admitted to the United Nations." That, however, was written more than three years ago-before the Chinese Reds swarmed into the Korean war. Last week it was plain that the U.S. position was quite different...
Pacific Defense. Australia's hearty Robert Gordon Menzies, 58, made plain that ANZUS, the mutual security pact between the Australasian dominions and the U.S., ought not to be encumbered with European members. He was hopeful of a Pacific NATO, including Britain, more or less along the lines proposed by Taft...
...foundations, spread smoking tar on road surfaces with hands swathed in jute sacking. Bulldozers grunted and dusty trucks rumbled up with loads of hand-made brick. The name of the place was Chandigarh, and there last week the world's most modern city was rising from a desolate plain...
Parks & Power Plants. In India last week, on his fifth inspection trip, Le Corbusier could see plenty of progress. In three years of work. 1,000 houses have "gone up across the dusty plain; another 2,000 are to be finished next winter. The main road system has been carved out, the parks are marked off and trees are being planted. The basement and first floor of the High Court are finished; work on the Secretariat is expected to begin next month. By 1956, says Le Corbusier, Chandigarh should be complete to the last detail...
...defect in U.N. negotiating technique had become quite plain. This was a tendency to make some demands for bargaining purposes, or to soothe the feelings of South Korea's intransigent Syngman Rhee, without making a sufficiently clear distinction between these demands and those basic questions of principle on which the U.N. was determined not to surrender...