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...greatest of Diem's immeasurable problems lay in the Asian truth that had already brought one-half of Indo-China crashing down into Communism: the Vietnamese who cared were less impressed by the brave intentions of powerless men, than by the ruthless success of the Communists in a faraway place called Geneva...
...likelihood was that divided France would continue to be governed by a , coalition. In the meantime, the govern ment would be run not by men with authority but by political zombies, powerless to make basic decisions. In the next government some of the faces would be different, but they were almost certain to wear the same ghostly pallor...
...adequate ordinary domestic needs . . ." ¶ "For the effect of civil change and revolution has been to divide society into two widely different castes. On the one side there is the party which holds the power because it holds the wealth . . . On the other side there is the needy and powerless multitude, sore and suffering...
...ensure the protection of the landing strip and to build it outside the reach of enemy artillery. But they wanted to install themselves in a basin without occupying the surrounding hills, and the terrain was neutralized from the first day of the battle. And our artillery proved so powerless to locate the enemy guns that the colonel responsible committed suicide in his bunker on March 14th, by blowing himself up with a hand grenade...
...Arab-Israeli war, which the Arabs lost but the Jews did not win, ended only on paper. In five years of truce, some 500 Israelis and an uncounted number of Arabs have been killed or wounded in fierce border clashes which the U.N. and its armistice teams are powerless to prevent. Some in recent months have assumed the gory proportion of massacres-Kibya last October, when Jews killed 53 helpless Arabs, Scorpion Pass last March, when Arabs slew eleven helpless Jews. But those are only larger, remembered episodes in a situation that is worsening rapidly. Last week TIME correspondents concluded...