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...effect, however, was to stiffen Adenauer's iron determination. Back in the caucus room after the first ballot, he shook his fist at the C.D.U. Deputies and shouted: "Some people in this room, some people in my own party voted against Gerstenmaier. If I find out who they were, they'll take the consequences...
...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
President Eisenhower must make the ultimate decision. To date, he clings to the hope that U.S. technical assistance will stiffen the French, and that the French can still win. The 250 U.S. officers and airmen in Indo-China will soon be reinforced by 150 more. Their job: to get the bogged-down French air force flying efficiently again. The next move may be a blockade of the Indo-Chinese coast (but not China) to prevent reinforcement by sea. This would require a naval carrier task force to move into the South China Sea. If these measures do not bring victory...
...folklore and religious customs, simplified his style and began copying the primitive pictures he saw on mud huts. At first his dancing devils and elephant gods were not successful, and for years he barely kept alive. Sometimes he used his clothes for canvas-first smeared with cow dung to stiffen them, then whitewashed to make a painting surface. He mixed his own inexpensive paints, including such ingredients as rock dust, mud and lampblack...