Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such anti-Communist nations as Britain, France, Spain and Portugal abstain from condemning Red China's suppression of Tibet? See FOREIGN NEWS, The Patient...
...candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, even though he faces a head-on collision with the state's Democratic boss, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, or Daley's candidate for the nomination. ¶In Philadelphia, Harold Stassen, who eleven years ago was a red-hot prospect for the Republican presidential nomination, got an unbrotherly, unloving cut in his campaign for mayor of Philadelphia, when the Bulletin and the Inquirer, both independent Republican newspapers, endorsed his opponent in next week's mayoralty election. Incumbent Mayor Richardson Dilworth, a Democrat...
...although unstinting in verbal support for Algeria's Moslem rebels, the Kremlin has given little or no concrete help, has not even recognized the rebel F.L.N. "provisional government." But Red China does recognize the rebel government, and recently feted two of its leaders, Mahmoud Cherif and Youssef ben Khedda, in Peking. Because of the geographical distance, direct Chinese aid could scarcely be anything but financial. But what worries the French more is the possibility that Peking might pressure...
...wanted the Tibet question debated in the U.N. When it was debated there anyway (at the urging of Ireland and Malaya). Nehru's wire-haired man-about-U.N.. V. K. Krishna Menon, dismissed Red China's aggressiveness as little more than the ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other...
...Abstentions. When the vote was finally taken in the U.N. General Assembly. 45 nations approved a resolution implicitly "deploring" Red China's aggression in Tibet, and all nine nays were Communist. Red China thus stood roundly condemned before the world for its actions. But significantly, 26 nations abstained on the resolution. Among the abstainers, besides India, were such decidedly anti-Communist nations as France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants...