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Although the Associated States are now virtually independent, the issue of colonialism remains the trump card in the Communist pack. As long as the Viet-Minh can claim that they are the only group fighting to rid Indo-China of French influence, they have a tremendous psychological advantage. The inescapable conclusion is that France will receive full Viet-Nam support only if it cuts even the last remaining strings that bind the Associated States to the French Union. Naturally, if this is done, the French will lose much of their will to continue fighting. Seven years of jungle war have...
...billion of economic (i.e., nonmilitary) aid dealt around the world since World War II, the U.S. has seldom known quite how to play its trump economic cards against the Communists and Socialists. The trumps are those dynamic qualities of production and distribution which make U.S.-type capitalism demonstrably the best pathway to a higher standard of living. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Christopher reported on an experiment in the province of Vicenza, Italy, where a group of imaginative U.S. foreign-aiders played the trumps with signal success, to the profit of Italian management, labor and the free world...
...roared: "It is the Trump we hear...
...carry on the work of his permanent subcommittee on investigations during the next year. The vote: 85 "yea," only one "nay"-a voice raised by Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright after McCarthy had demanded a roll-call vote. Among the liberals who failed to hear the Trump: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, New York's Herbert Lehman, Oregon's Wayne Morse...
...providing a second superproduction to follow up its first. Fox has made a strong lead to take the next trick in the big game now being played for the entertainment dollar. If HTMAM is a grandscale success, the other Hollywood studios will probably have to trump, or follow Fox's suit...