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...About the Vikings. The government responded by twice imposing speaking bans on Luthuli; in 1956 it arrested him for treason, but later dismissed the charge. Even white South Africans began to listen to his speeches. Explains one African: "Luthuli was able to say the most dangerous things about the government in the most charitable way." Unmoved by his charity, the government finally, in 1959, banished him to his home district for five years, forbidding him to speak or enter politics. But Luthuli kept up his resistance campaign; last year, after the Sharpeville massacre, he was fined $280 for publicly burning...
...Chinese have set up special centers in Asia and Africa for "subversive intrigue" against Moscow.* ¶ When Russian "interests more than ever demanded a determined policy of coexistence with the countries hostile to socialism, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party denounced our every initiative in this direction as treason, as appe¶asing the invaders of Formosa, or as a sacrifice of the interests of the people of China to those of the U.S.S.R." ¶EUR| Ever since 1949, Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung has preached "preventive war" against the West. Then it was excusable because...
...Tshombe's pal. Turning to Mobutu, Tshombe declared: "Because of men like him, the Congo crisis can now be ended. He is above them all, all, all, all." Then, of all things, Tshombe embraced Congolese Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko, who a few weeks ago accused him of high treason. "He was my worst enemy," grinned Moise. "Now he is my best friend." Back home in Katanga, Tshombe's aides glumly prepared to hand over their army to central Congolese government control, for that, too, was part of the deal...
...chilly, depressing week in Paris. Day followed day of lowering clouds and slanting rain. Though large crowds gamely lined the boulevards to cheer the closed limousines that splashed by. Parisians were preoccupied by their own multitudinous problems-Algeria, the restive French army, the treason of the generals which led to April's clumsy insurrection in Algiers...
Western failures are not due, however, to treason or "give-a ways," but rather to sincere but fuzzy thinking. Punitive war, unconditional surrender, and refusal to negotiate with the Soviets represent one type of business; coalition sentimentality another...