Word: unpopularities
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...ratified in this week's carnival street-dancing, it was a cinch that Attila, who had won six times before, would be the victor again. Attila had further increased his popularity by boldly protesting against the police department's censorship of calypso songs which ridiculed unpopular local officials. Sang Attila, in the last verse of his prize song: I don't think I am so loyal today...
Obviously, the Kremlin would not have substituted this unpopular policy for the popular economic argument if it had not put military considerations first. The Kremlin has realized far more clearly than the West that in Asia and in Europe the military stakes are far more important than the economic stakes. A prosperous area will not necessarily be a defensible area. An area which the West resolutely and intelligently prepares for defense can, in time, be made into a prosperous area...
...Belgium's Finance Minister Camille Gutt took stern action to get his country back on its feet: he tightened credit, levied heavy taxes, cut government spending to the bone. The course was unpopular in Belgium, and Gutt fell from power. But last week gutty Mr. Gutt, now head of the International Monetary Fund, had his reward. The Fund announced that Belgium had paid in full the $33 million loan borrowed two years ago to build up its dollar reserves. It thus became the first European nation to wipe out its debt to the Fund.* Said one Fund official...
...speak of the fact that DDT has become ineffective against mosquitoes [TIME, Dec. 5]. Last summer while I was in Crete, a friend of mine said: "Yes, we have flies, and they have been Mithridated." Mithridates was King of Pontus just before the birth of Christ. He was quite unpopular, and made himself immune to poison by taking small and gradually increasing doses [until] he could take without risk something like 26 or 27 poisons...
...East command of General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. correspondents who have written dispatches critical of the commander or of occupation policies have soon learned what it is like to be unpopular. Some got the deep freeze from Mac-Arthur's staff. Others who left Tokyo on visits, or assignments in the Far East, had to wait weeks and slice through endless snarls of red tape before they were allowed to return to Japan (TIME...