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Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
...defection proved that Germany could not trust any German who resisted Hitler during the war. Replied Adenauer: "Those who, out of love, for the German people, tried to destroy the tyranny are worthy of the highest honor." Abroad, Adenauer knew that talk of resurging German Naziism was sure to strengthen the opponents of EDC in France. Said Konrad Adenauer: "I expressly declare that there is no revival of National Socialism in Germany, and that it will not revive...
...Hupeh province, the Communists acknowledged that 106,000 volunteers had been called out to strengthen an "impregnable" water-retention project. At one Yangtze point, according to Radio Peking, 200 soldiers and 10,000 peasants formed a great human wall with mats on their backs, and managed to stand off the torrent for three hours. "People are confident," cried Peking's New China News Agency nervously, "that everything has been foreseen. There will be no panic, no hunger, nothing like the bad old days when there was no help from above...
Blunt Man. In the last busy week, Mendès' first concern was to strengthen his own hand. He cajoled John Foster Dulles as far as Paris, made a hectic flying visit from Geneva to Paris (accompanied by Britain's admiring Anthony Eden) to meet him. Mendès did not stand on protocol. He rushed right over to the U.S. embassy to see Dulles. He wanted to make it clear that he was not a "peace-at-any-price...
...schoolmates in Christchurch, Juliet Hulme, 15, and Pauline Parker, 16, often collaborated in the writing and production of amateur plays-plays which, according to equally amateur critics, were "not bad at all." They both liked detective stories, and as if to strengthen their status as best friends, both had been visited by similar misfortune: each had missed long periods at school through illness. They also both wanted to go to America "to have novels published and filmed," but their parents would not let them...