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...gave over $1 billion in German prewar debts at the 1952 London Debt Conference, and that the U.S. Government agreed to wipe $2.2 billion in postwar aid debts off the books to help the Germans along. And though West Germany's defense depends largely on keeping U.S. and British troops stationed on its territory, the Germans have doggedly insisted on trimming their share of the costs of maintaining and supporting them. In 1958, German troop-support payments to Britain were sharply reduced, and half the $600 million Bonn promised for U.S. defense forces in 1957 has never been paid...
...defectors from East Germany turned up in Berlin with reports on the new doctrine of the East German army. Captain Guenther Malikowski, 32, a one time political officer with the First Motorized Rifle Division in Potsdam, said the theme of troop indoctrination is now a "justified war of liberation" against West Germany. East German troops are told they should have no compunction about killing fellow Germans if they are serving the "imperialist" cause...
President Kasavubu's counter-interventions were no more effective. Rallying a small troop of loyal soldiers, he sent them off to capture his rival Lumumba. The troop took Lumumba by surprise, bundled him into his own official black Ford and drove him off to a prison cell at Camp Leopold II. But less than two hours later, General Lundula convinced the guards that he had orders to transfer Lumumba to another prison. Once beyond the gates, Lumumba located 40 friendly soldiers and rolled back downtown, with sirens screaming, shouting. "Today victory is mine. Death to the imperialists!" Once again...
...lead the Soviet delegation at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Apparently this meant quite a gathering of the clan. Day before. Rumania's Party Chief Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej proclaimed that he would head his country's U.N. delegation. Presumably, all the satellite leaders would troop across...
...this left the crowd in front of Djakarta's handsome Merdeka Palace uncommonly apathetic. But like the skilled spellbinder he is. Sukarno finally got his audience roaring with a burst of demagogic thunder in which he attacked The Netherlands for sending an aircraft carrier and 1,000 troop reinforce ments to neighboring Dutch New Guinea - which Sukarno claims is part of Indo nesia and properly called "West Irian." Sneering at The Netherlands as a "country of small creditors that still preserves its taste for colonialism," Sukarno wound up by announcing the breaking off of diplo matic relations with...