Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snuggle Up. Since then, surprisingly little has been heard about the union. So far the two countries have not even set up the constitutional and economic commissions they promised. Instead, Guinea has been snuggling up to France, which has gradually swallowed its indignation over the man who said no. Last month Guinea negotiated a series of agreements which to a considerable extent place the country squarely back in the French Community. It will stay in the franc zone, keep its foreign exchange in the Banque de France, and it will once again get technical assistance from France. In lands where...
Julius Nyerere, 36, whose Tanganyika African National Union won every seat in last fall's election to the Legislative Council. A slight, soft-spoken man with an M.A. (history and economics) from the University of Edinburgh and the filed teeth of his tribe ("I found them a rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government...
...favorable reception accorded [Deputy Premier] Mikoyan." Picking up President Eisenhower's press-conference comment on Mikoyan's visit, that "you couldn't do this" with Premier Khrushchev, he exclaimed in mock dismay: "This is something very close to discrimination." He invited Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union-"and we don't make this invitation conditional on reciprocity; we don't impose our visits on anybody." To Secretary Dulles' observation that the Soviet Union still seeks cold-war victory, he retorted: "Well, Mr. Dulles, if that's what you want, then for the sake...
...Senator Humphrey's wild imagination ran riot when he began to make up his inventions about the relations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. In this he even surpassed the well-known compiler of lies, Baron Munchausen." Without explicitly denying Humphrey's report that Khrushchev had described China's communes as "reactionary," Khrushchev said: "The idea that I could have been in any way confidential with a man who himself boasts of his 20-year struggle against Communism can only serve to raise a laugh...
...Communist China is Britain's best customer in the Communist bloc. Britain sold $75 million in goods to Red China last year-$8,400,000 more than to the Soviet Union...