Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says nobody is qualified to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace for this year ? After his retreat from Cuba, Khrushchev certainly deserves it, and if given to him, he might even start living up to his new reputation...
Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies...
Hoarse Shouts. Back home in Peking, things got even rougher. In some of the strongest abuse it has yet heaped on Khrushchev, Red China labeled Moscow's Cuban retreat "appeasement" and accused the Kremlin of trying to "play the Munich scheme against the Cuban peopie." Day after day, mass rallies of schoolchildren and workers shouted themselves hoarse to back Castro; the regime flooded cities and towns with millions of militant pamphlets...
...retreat in suburban Taipei, the Republic of China's venerable President Chiang Kai-shek passed his 75th birthday in quiet seclusion. The still spry Gimo requested that there be no public celebrations, but 30,000 Formosans jammed into the Presidential Mansion grounds to sign traditional congratulatory scrolls; across the island there were youth rallies, mass choral concerts and, with an eye to the Reds across the strait, mass bayonet exercises. In lieu of birthday cake, all the guests at restaurants, public luncheons and dinner parties were served long, flat noodles, a Chinese symbol of longevity...
There is a danger in writing about the pseudoinsane, and it is the danger of trickery. I do not think Carter Wilson captures the spirit of Swift in suggesting private retreat. But Wilson is entitled to his philosophical foray, after all, and in a cleverly blocked final scene he shows the Dean's actions for what they are: a stab at desperate alternative. And it stands very much to Wilson's credit that he fuses philosophy and personality in each character with such steady craft...