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Moving from the cold facts of Peking's internal policy to the balmy realm of hypothetical diplomacy, Kuo proceeds to shed his objectivity like a topcoat. In regard to the present "power balance" in Asia, the author's unabashed delight in the pre-eminence that China has achieved under Communist rule often verges on the chauvinistic. Although Kuo admits that China and the United States came breathlessly close to war in 1954, when Chou Enlai's own brand of "brinkmanship" succeeded in "stretching the peace in Asia almost to the breaking-point," he confidently assures the reader that Peking...

Author: By Samuel J. Walker, | Title: The New China | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

...documentation of the dogmatic claims of either low or high tariff men. Nearly two years ago the Minnesota Business Executives Research Committee, a study group sponsored by the University of Minnesota's School of Business Administration, decided that it was time to move the tariff controversy into the realm of local reality. Last week, after interviewing officials of about 400 Minnesota companies, the committee released an item-by-item survey of the probable effects on Minnesota's industry of a U.S. tariff reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Dogma Documented | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...based, has perhaps not thought long enough about what makes people weak or strong, bad or good, split or whole. The interrogator in the picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that he seriously asks for God's help, or tries with any genuine religious understanding to commend his spirit into God's hands. He just goes it alone like a self-sufficient 19th century liberal, or at best like a sort of Kafka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...breathlessly last week for tidings that meant a happy or sad ending to the royal romance of the pretty Princess and the dashing airman. But beneath the soapsuds of sentiment, a serious crisis was forming. The plans of Princess Margaret, third in line for the throne of the British realm, and Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F., a once-married commoner, have grown into the topmost concern of church and state. Britons sensed that a decision was in the making, but few knew all that was going on to shape it. The question concerned not only Princess Margaret's happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time for Decision | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

India's aging (69) Nizam of Hyderabad indicated that he intends to stay put there, even though next year's dissolution of his realm will put him out of a job. As unemployed potentates go, the adamant Nizam will get on pretty well. When Hyderabad agreed to union with India in 1949, the Nizam wangled some lofty guarantees of the style to which he is accustomed. Items: the continued right to be called His Exalted Highness, a taxfree privy purse of $1 million a year, plus a yearly $500,000 to run his menage and another half million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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