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...gift from Agricultural Minister Heinrich Lübke (whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk cost in Germany). Lübke's present: a bottle of milk, a token unlikely to wean the Chancellor from the grape...
...Stalin and company made a huge tactical blunder in assuming that European Jewry was a pushover for the People's Party. Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution the Politburo has gambled on a campaign of magnanimity towards the Jews, thinking that the lack of a homeland and Nazi decimation would wean them to Soviet allegiance. When Israel gained independence in 1948 and their scheme backfired, the Russians tried to save face by wiping out any strong Jewish influence behind the Iron Curtain...
...reported that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was "tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements"; it had "lost the heart of the people," who had turned to Communism as their only hope. Last year he urged U.S. recognition of the Chinese Communists. Recognition, said Douglas, would wean the Chinese people and their masters away from Russian domination...
More than 100 years ago, a czarist agent, Bishop Euspensy, hatched the scheme of wresting the Jerusalem patriarchate away from his church's liturgical twin, the Greek Orthodox Church. The best he could do was to wean a few Christian Arabs away from the Greek church. But the czars, eager to extend their power through the Middle East, kept the plot boiling. In 1860, the Russian Palestine Society was founded. Its main business: buying up property in Jerusalem and Nazareth and running a theological seminary where the students boned up on power politics when they were not chanting their...
...hopeful side to the teen-age dope problem. Unlike older people, few teen-agers appear to take to drugs because of psychological troubles; youngsters usually start using narcotics either out of ignorance or the same reckless impulses which lead them to race hot rods. Though they are easier to wean, however, there are almost no facilities for taking care of them. On New York's Rikers Island, youngsters have to endure the horrors of a sudden "cold turkey" cure or get none at all. Once released, many go right back to drugs again. And penalties for the vicious crime...