Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BURMA. Replacing soon-to-be-reassigned Joseph C. Satterthwaite: Walter Patrick McConaughy, 48, director of Chinese affairs in the State Department since 1952. Foreign Service Officer McConaughy has seen his share of lights going out in Asia: in 1941, while serving in the U.S. embassy in Peking, he was interned by the Japanese, released the following year. After a swing through Latin America he returned to China as U.S. consul in Shanghai, closed down the post in 1950 after the Communists had moved in. Principal current aim and ambition: to keep the lights burning brightly in Burma...
Sleepless Nights. The testing time had come. Caught up in the sand-blown vortex were all the spiraling, competing ambitions that agitate the Middle East. Jordan's real estate might not be worth much, but denying it to someone else mattered a great deal. Seen simply, the issue was between the nations like Iraq and Saudi Arabia which have chosen Washington, and Egyypt and Syria which are playing with Moscow. But nothing is ever that simple in the Middle East. King Saud likes Ike. but does not defy Nasser. Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly has himself flown...
...sheep dogs. In the post-office square (which Americans nicknamed Riot Plaza), crowds began rhythmically clapping hands and chanting: "Down with the Eisenhower Plan!" and "Long Live Nasser!" The marchers threw stones at the police, who warded them off with basket-weave shields. After one scuffle ("I've seen worse at Ebbets Field," said one newsman), the police fired a warning shot into the air. By early afternoon it was all over in Amman, and Hussein was king of the streets as well as boss of the army...
...policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped out of his railroad car in the Finland Station, having been transported through Germany in a sealed car, it was seen that Molotov had been right: Lenin demanded "immediate peace [with Germany], bread and land," the whole Marxist book, and a little more besides...
...Dumbbell. Nowhere in Molotov's 3,000-word Pravda article was there mention of an earlier claimant to the same honor, whose name today is actually carved beside that of Lenin on the famous tomb in Red Square: Stalin. Since Stalin had long ago seen to it that few witnesses of those early Petrograd days remained alive in Russia, there was no one around to dispute with Molotov his actual relationship with Lenin. But the archives of Leninism still held their verdict. In a letter commenting on Molotov's work, the exiled Lenin wrote: "We have received...