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...importance of holding "some piece of secret knowledge in reserve which at any moment may intervene, and the more effectively from being in the nature of a surprise." As the Algerian crisis worsened last week, as pundits gloomily predicted sedition, street fighting and army coups d'état, De Gaulle was in desperate need of some "piece of secret knowledge" that would surprisingly intervene and save France from factionalism and national failure...
...Bill Knowland's return from politics dates from his decision in 1957 to resign as U.S. Senate minority leader in order to run for Governor of California-a position he patently thought would take him closer to the U.S. presidency. He was thoroughly whopped by Democrat 'Tat" Brown. Knowland nursed his wounds on a slow cruise through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean; then he returned to Oakland and sat down beside his father to see what he might do as a newspaperman...
Laotians, who have gone through two coups d'état in a year, last week had a coup de radio. From the southern town of Savannakhet, Prince Boun Oum, 52, tall, silvery-maned royal inspector general and pretender to a long defunct kingdom, took to the radio to declare that the new neutralist government in Vientiane was handing the country over to Communism, and announced "the seizure of power and the abrogation of the constitution in order to bring peace and happiness to the country and the people." The prince is kingpin of the rich southern Laotian valleys, famed...
...tat, Washington expelled Valentin M. Ivanov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy, accusing him of paying a young American "a substantial sum" to seek a U.S. Government job. But there were signs that the Soviet government was making progress in its campaign to keep ordinary Russians away from contact with foreigners: it doesn't take much to revive memories. Reported Los Angeles Schoolteacher Betty Jean Koferts, who was shadowed on her Soviet trip because she dated a Russian boy: "They took him to police headquarters and warned him against seeing me again . . . Most people there are afraid of Americans...
This was infuriating to Sukarno, since the Indonesian Communist Party is the nation's largest, and he has for years teetered between a Red takeover and a coup d'état by the anti-Communist army. Besides, it was no way for a guest to act. In the heavily pro-Red port city of Surabaya, Sukarno struck back. While Khrushchev sat bulkily silent on the platform. Sukarno told a crowd of 40,000 that Indonesia must maintain "its own personality,'' and promised eventual success for his own vague "guided democracy," or, as he put it: "Socialism...