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...that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism v. anti-colonialism . . . Was the tragic history of 7½ years of war in Indo-China not due to an attempt to prolong the colonial era?" It was the old familiar Nehru line; his supporters had heard it before, and the public galleries were almost empty...
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, by right of conquest and popular acclaim, last week took the presidency of Guatemala. The temporary junta, of which he was a member and Colonel Elfego Monzon the head, saw no reason to prolong its nervous interregnum and unanimously voted Castillo Armas into office. Then two Monzon supporters resigned, leaving the junta composed of the new provisional President, one of the officers who fought in his rebel army, and Monzon, who stayed on to be the voice of the regular Guatemalan army. Castillo Armas' 2,000 tattered troops planned to muster...
...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...
...From Philadelphia's Heart Specialist William D. Stroud came a terse prescription: Moderation is the best answer to heart disease; too many doctors try to prolong life by making life miserable for the patients...
...that most would require a renegotiation with the other five nations of EDC, and some would require such new demands on Germany that, though the French might accept, the Germans would not. This is why the U.S. officially refuses to talk of alternatives and insistently asks France not to prolong its agony...