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Pyun, a right-winger who bears no love for the U.S. State Department, explained: "I do not mean to apologize for the intentions we ought to have as a sovereign people [to reunite divided Korea. But] these honorable and legitimate intentions of ours failed . . . The United States Government did not mean to support and implement these Korean aspirations for fear it might touch off the much dreaded third World War . . . Far from supplying us with heavy artillery and battle planes making an offensive action possible, the U.S. Government took special care to keep the R.O.K. in short supply of small...
...Peking they sent Premier Tsedenbal, where (on orders from the Kremlin) he got the kind of welcome given only to the head of a sovereign state. Tsedenbal signed a ten-year treaty with Red China pledging cultural, economic and educational exchanges. No mention was made of a military alliance, thus underlining the fact that Outer Mongolia's only military connections are with the Soviet Union. At lavish banquets celebrating the pact, Premier Tsedenbal toasted both Mao and Stalin, but for every toast honoring Mao, the "great leader of the Chinese people," there were at least six eulogies of Stalin...
...first general election as a free sovereign nation, Japan last week returned Premier Yoshida's right-wing Liberal Party to power, but that was not the election's biggest news. In the previous Diet, the Communists had held 22 seats in the Lower Chamber. In last week's election, they failed to win a single seat. The total vote cast for the Reds dropped from 3,000,000 (1949) to less than 900,000. It was the biggest ballot-box defeat suffered by any Communist Party since World...
...They can do nothing about freeing Linse, because the supposedly sovereign East German government has no control whatever over the East Zone's Russian-run secret police...
...region was well worth a look: the rugged, isolated mountain country spanning the Russian-Turkish border and stretching eastward to the Caspian Sea may be the strategic key to the whole troubled Middle East. This land (see map) is Kurdistan. It is split up among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting...