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...Peace. Both sides had withdrawn from previously "final" positions -partly in fear of General Raoul Salan's fanatical Secret Army Organization and its indiscriminate terror. Specifically, the French agreed to recognize the F.L.N. as 1) speaking for Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems; 2) having sovereign power over all Algeria, even the oil-rich Sahara; 3) an honorable foe whose 5,000 captured troops will be treated as prisoners of war, not criminals...
Hasty Raids. Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress exiles gathered in Calcutta, where their grievances against the King won quick sympathy from Indian press and politicians. Though conceding that Nepal is a sovereign state, India has continued the practice of the British raj in trying to exercise control over the mountain kingdom. Nehru's government poured $56 million in economic aid into Nepal and supplied it with arms; in return, Nepal exports to India rice, timber, and the tough little Gurkha soldiers who make up India's crack regiments...
...loyal subject and obedient taxpayer, I would like to inquire of the sovereign who is footing the bill for the Grand Tour of the Duke and Duchess of McLean...
...France's new draft suggested a European defense structure that made no provision whatever for liaison with or membership in the NATO system. De Gaulle himself dropped some hints of what he really was after: a "Europe des patries [Europe of fatherlands]," meaning a confederation of cooperating and sovereign nations. Since France is the only continental power developing a nuclear force, De Gaulle obviously expected his own patrie to be Europe's military leader...
...object of his tribute he defined as more than "a mechanical or technical or abstract formula", or simply a balanced system of decentralized power. According to Rockefeller the federal idea is less a system than a process by which centers of "sovereign power, energy and creativity" (state governments) cooperate with the national government for the general good...