Word: truce
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...home. Only by recognizing the desire to relieve tensions and settle disputes can one understand the apparent inconsistencies in Nehru's foreign policy. Repeated attempts to admit Red China to the United Nations alongside stern warnings to Ho Chi Minh and Chou En Lal to observe the Indo-Chinese truce agreements are linked only by the single purpose of achieving some kind of a live-and-let-live settlement in Asia...
...itself is plagued with doubts: the Pentagon does not want to get bogged down upon the Asian mainland; the State Department is unwilling to commit U.S. prestige too deeply in South Viet Nam if the cause is already lost. Under the terms of the Geneva truce, all-Viet Nam elections are scheduled to be held in 1956, with the winner to take the entire country. As of today, that winner would be Ho Chi Minh. The Communist North, organized by tyranny, would easily out vote a South disrupted by chaos...
Ever since he came to power, Argentine Strongman Juan Peroón has maintained an uneasy truce with the Catholic Church. In a country where more than 90% of the people are Catholics, no practical-minded dictator could do otherwise. But recently, Perón's press and unions began sniping at the clergy, and last week Juan Perón himself leaped in with a biting attack on several Catholic priests. Some Catholic organizations, he apparently feared, were forming an embryonic Christian Democratic Party to oppose...
Democrats waged a clean and vigorous fight, with an enormously appealing candidate. They called a truce to their own internal squabbles. And in George Michael Leader, the man nobody knew, they found a hot candidate...
Fair-Dealing Columnist DORIS FLEESON : This is a pocketbook election. The emotional issues which swept Gen. Eisenhower into the White House have receded far into the background. The American people may not be proud of the truce in Korea but they have apparently thrust that unpopular war into the back of their minds. They seem to have similarly discounted the setback in Indo-China. Sen. McCarthy is another dead duck. The campaign is lethargic in large part because these emotional, highly personal issues have been superseded by economic questions. And there is no doubt the Democratic trend results from...