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Diem considered resignation, decided to fight, and likewise persuaded his Foreign Minister to stay on. Diem wanted time and a chance to wipe out the memory of the graft, inefficiency and indifference of the Bao Dai regime,* wanted time to spark an anti-Communist revolution based upon full independence and land reform...
...spark which finally touched off the Army-McCarthy explosion was the Subcommittee's: 1. Investigation of Secretary Stevens' personal staff...
...council, which will last for two years, was called to codify some changes in the texts and to prepare them for propagation throughout a morally shaken Asia. The man behind the council is Burma's pleasant, scholarly Prime Minister U Nu, who has been doing his best to spark a religious resurgence in his country since it got its independence in 1948. A devout Buddhist, who rises to pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision...
...painstakingly through edition with a number of improvements over last year's. 318 summarizes the year exhaustively, but it fails in one of a yearbook's most important tasks: to catch the spirit of the year and hold it for the future. Both the writing and photography lack the spark and understanding necessary to create nostalgia at any given future date...
...weeks, barely below the diplomatic surface, there had been growing friction between the two great powers of the Western alliance. Finally, last week there was a spark big enough to blow British-U.S. differences into headlines all around the world. At his press conference Dwight Eisenhower said that the U.S. might move forward in a southeast Asia alliance without Great Britain. In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill agreed with a Laborite who said that the opening of U.S.-French talks on Indo-China without Britain was "inconsistent with the spirit of the Western alliance." While some subsequent analyses...