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...brags were inadvertent admissions of the depth of the unrest. Only a week earlier, Dr. Hu Shih, modern China's most eminent philosopher and most respected scholar, speaking for Nationalist China at the U.N. for the first time since 1945, documented some of the details of last summer's student revolt that the regime had tried hard to suppress. It began, said Dr. Hu Shih, with a meeting of 8,000 students at Peking University, where 19 student leaders openly attacked the Communists' suppression of freedom, spread when the leaders launched a periodical calling on students...
Kadar's presence was an unnecessary reminder that Red China had its own problem of unrest. Last week there was little talk of "liberating" Formosa. Instead, speaker after speaker bragged of the triumph over internal enemies. Attacks on the Red regime "have been smashed by the people in all parts of the country." crowed Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai...
...Khrushchev's decision to decentralize the management of Soviet industry (TIME, April 15). In addition, the troubles in Poland and Hungary not only deprived Russia of valuable imports, e.g., Polish coal, but also obliged Russia to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the satellites to quiet their unrest...
Abrams also felt that the effort to placate the unrest of the young Russians had failed. He noted that the long exchanges of ideas appeared to have created greater problems for the Russian government than existed before, and that the Russian girls had been very impressed with the pretty clothes of the female delegates. He predicted a good deal of pressure, as a result of this, to have the government turn out more consumer goods and less heavy machinery and weapons...
Neither then nor thereafter did Governor Faubus consult with the man charged by the Arkansas constitution with keeping law and order in Little Rock: Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann."There was no indication of unrest whatever," says Mann. "We had no reason to believe there would be violence." For one thing, Little Rock had worked out for itself a seven-year integration plan, carefully picking and choosing among the Negro students most likely to do well, so as to minimize the possibility of trouble in a city with better-than-average race relationships. Even so, to be on the safe side...