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...years Abdullah the Moslem held fast to India in the wearing dispute with Pakistan; he went to Lake Success in his caracul cap to plead India's case at the U.N. But last year, he warned Nehru that Kashmir's accession to India might "have to be of a restricted nature." Last month he flatly proposed an independent Kashmir, free from both India and Pakistan. Such talk was no help to Nehru, who was entering new talks with Pakistan (TIME, Aug. 10) to settle the dispute by compromise...
...While conservative business organizations and individuals plead for a liberalized trade policy and a devoted nation stands ready to back him to the hilt, Mr. Eisenhower bows to the noisy and parasitical high-tariff lobby. The commission which he would have Congress appoint for a year's review of tariff policy could arrive at basic and practicable conclusions after a conference with any schoolboy who has studied elementary economics. Europe is crying for prompt removal of American tariff barriers so that, by earning dollars, she might ease out of the American-aid strait jacket...
After Montgomery had pushed him back to Tunisia, and the Americans were closing in on him from the west, Rommel flew to Germany to plead with Hitler to permit him to evacuate Africa, save what he could of his forces for the defense of southern Europe. His description of the interview...
...original plan called for about 200 arrests a week but there have been far more. As of December 16, 1952, the total number of arrests in 37 centers of the Union was 8,057. Some of these volunteers were white people. When arrested, almost all resisters plead guilty and serve the jail sentences. Many are sentenced to caning because the jails are over-crowded...
When Nana Sita, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, was sentenced to jail, he read a statement to the court: "I have deliberately and willfully committed a breach of the law under which I am charged. This I have done in full knowledge of its implications . . . . I do not plead for mitigation or mercy. I have decided to go to gaol so that my suffering and the suffering of the oppressed people of this land may ultimately bring about the conditions which will make South Africa a happy country for all, regardless of race, colour, or creed...