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...affairs: obviously, there has been a drastic change in Russian foreign policy. Involved in the change were retreats in principle and in fact that could have highly important consequences. When they agreed to pull out of Austria, the Russians created the risk that new eagerness for freedom and new unrest will rise in the satellites, notably in neighboring Czechoslovakia and Hungary. When they appeared hat in hand in Belgrade, they showed that dissenters to Communist rule not only can survive but can flourish. These are highly dangerous chinks in the foundation of a system built upon terror and centralism...
Course Change. Brownie Reid is not surprised at the feeling of unrest at the Trib. But he thinks that the new diet is working fine. Unless there are unforeseen setbacks, says he, the Trib should finish the year well in the black for the first time in four years. Circulation and advertising are up, and he has big plans for expanding the paper's general news coverage, sports, features and business and financial news. The first issue of the new Sunday pocket-sized TV magazine (TIME, May 23) was a "big success," and Brownie hopes to syndicate it nationally...
...throb of unrest in East Germany can be accurately measured by the flow of refugees to the West. For about a year the number of East Germans seeking sanctuary was a fairly steady 6,500 a month. Last month the number abruptly rose to 8,500. West Berlin authorities expect the figure for April...
...Chiang's certainty was also the source of his weakness. His inner conviction led him to confuse criticism of his actions with a threat to the nation's welfare, and he could be cruel to opponents. He thought in moral, not social, terms. Too often, while the unrest loosed by the very revolution he had set loose seethed around him. Chiang exhorted and scolded his people like a Savanarola, when the times called for vigorous social reforms...
...vastly ambitious novel by a Spaniard who fought on the Franco side in the Spanish civil war and has set out to tell his country's tragic story from the beginning of the republic (1931) to the present. Cypresses covers the first five years of political unrest, ends twelve days after the beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop to the bootblack." The novel's hero, if it has one, is Ignacio, ison of a poor but intelligent civil servant. His mother...