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...Army's activities begins in spring 1950, when he salvaged some 2,000 stragglers from the wreck of the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group and withdrew his demoralized troops to the Shan mountains on the Burma side of the border. In May 1951 Li attacked Red Yunnan with several thousand recruits gleaned from the borderlands, occupied eight hsien (Chinese counties), and appealed for volunteers. "Every able-bodied man in the district" stepped forward, he says; the National Salvation Army increased...
...seems so, because the times have given it new urgency. Walking from one to another of India's 700,000 villages, he asks those who have land to share it with those who have none. Without using the words of the gentle Evangelist who preceded him by two thousand years, he tells his audiences that it is more blessed to give than to receive. To those who have land he says: "I have come to loot you with love. If you have four sons, consider me as the fifth, and accordingly give me my share." To impoverished tenants...
Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame...
Best barometer readings on France's political climate are the municipal elections, in which several hundred thousand small-time politicians run for office. This week, in the first round of the 1953 elections, General Charles de Gaulle's Rally of the French People lost the most ground. His party lost 15 out of its 26 seats in the Paris municipal council, 21 out of 25 in Marseilles. Principal gainers were the independent parties ranging themselves behind ex-Premier Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing, inflation-fighting regime won tremendous popular prestige before its downfall in December. The French Communist...
Almost immediately, Edward M. Strasser '56 announced his intention to circulate a petition, if Dean Watson approves. One thousand undergraduate signatures are necessary to force the Council to submit the issue to College-wide consideration. Two-thirds of those who vote can make a decision either...