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South Viet Nam. But with the revolt safely crushed, Diem last week turned more dictatorial than ever. He reneged on mid-revolt promises of reform, declared himself in favor of "personalism" (i.e., rule by Diem alone). Pro-Diem vigilantes sacked five newspapers that had dared print news of the rebellion, helped secret police round up 75 intellectuals and politicians on flimsy charges of complicity in the uprising. The battle in Saigon had killed 400 of the country's finest fighting men, and Communist guerrillas took advantage of South Viet Nam's lowered guard to tighten their hold...
Late 19th-century missionary fervor provided the impetus for Yale-in-China. Established immediately before the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, this school was, according to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, "a work through which the bright conscience and warm heart of America could shine in splendor." Religious interest played a much less important role when Harvard-Yenching was established in 1928. According to its charter, it exists "to conduct and provide research, instruction and publication in the culture of China..."In accordance with these aims, the Harvard-Yenching Institute has concentrated upon advancing Chinese scholarship-not upon training doctors...
Thus, he continued, de Gaulle meets the obstinate rebellion of the FLN, the Moslem liberation movement, with an equally obstinate repression and the demand that the FLN accept a cease-fire on French terms...
...Macmillan) is rated the brightest but most nakedly ambitious of Labor's younger generation. Though he opposes unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled. "A bad case badly put," sighed one disapproving Laborite. When the votes were counted last week, Gaitskell had defeated Wilson 166 to 81. Relaxing, the M.P.s greeted the results with...
Only last January, after quelling a settlers' revolt in Algiers and cracking down hard on its army backers, the President had seemed the unchallenged master of events, quite evidently on his way to ending the Algerian rebellion by applying his proclaimed principle of self-determination. Then, at Melun last summer, he laid down such exacting terms at the first peace parleys that the rebels turned away and flung themselves into the arms of Moscow and Peking, in search of military and diplomatic support...