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...except to those who know how to take her." But if Navarre knew how, the French Cabinet back home seemed very tired. "How do you think it feels." said one politician, "to fight alone for seven years in a war that is militarily hopeless, politically dead-end and economically ruinous." Bao Dai's special congress did not help French morale by voting, roundly, that it wanted no part of the French Union in its present form. And in July 1953, the U.N. negotiated a truce in Korea. Across France a great cry swelled: Finish la sale guerre by negotiation...
...foreword by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Plant Diseases discusses pertinent maladies ranging from "Root Rots, Wilts and Blights of Peas," to "The Smuts of Wheat, Oats, and Barley." The report has not been published merely as a scientific discussion of plant problems, or to indicate how ruinous these diseases could be for the farmers. As Secretary Benson points out, "To me the most startling aspect of plant disease is that they cost three billion dollars a year...
...owners replied that recognition would be followed inevitably by ruinous wage demands. As it is, the Department of Agriculture subsidy makes the difference between profit and loss for many a planter. This week the growers' Sugar Cane League, in newspaper advertisements, vowed that "this is a struggle which the farmers will not and cannot lose," threatened "mass discharges and evictions" if the strike did not end. Some planters have already imported strikebreakers from Mississippi...
...great danger in U.S. foreign aid is that it may tempt the governments of some countries to pursue ruinous policies, and hand Uncle Sam the bill. The presentation could be accompanied by the threat of Communism and/or collapse if help is not forthcoming...
...trapped between an enemy who was willing to settle and a principal ally who saw the settlement as ruinous. At Panmunjom, the Communists were presumably all set to sign an armistice. But in Seoul, stubborn old Syngman Rhee postponed a cease-fire indefinitely by setting free 27,000 North Korean war prisoners that the U.N. had promised to turn over to a neutral commission (see below). By his act, Syngman Rhee all but solved the problem of forced repatriation so far as North Koreans were concerned. He certainly proved that they did not want to go back. But he also...