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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rice Eaters. On average, the number of calories consumed by Asians, Africans and Latin Americans has increased since World War II. What has changed is the unwillingness of poorer peoples to accept undernourishment. Said an Indonesian delegate to the FAO conference: "More Indonesians are eating rice than ever before. The result is that more Indonesians want it. People who have never had rice before have decided that they like...
...rebels chosen to give De Gaulle an answer they knew he could not accept? The likeliest explanation was that they were counting on a U.N. vote of condemnation against France when the General Assembly debates the Algerian question in the next few weeks, and recognized that their chances of getting one would be slim, unless they made at least a pretense of accepting De Gaulle's call for negotiations...
...come to Brussels to accept a $2,000 award for his good works in Africa. In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred...
...Germany is reunited, each side will insist on neutrality and nonalignment with any block, including a new Western block under the French. Further, a reunited Germany would be too strong for France, who, along with other nations, would not accept German domination...
...Gaulle can outmaneuver London and Moscow by putting off the summit meeting as long as possible and, when obliged to attend, by insisting on bargaining terms impossible for the Russians to accept. In other words, by preventing any change in the status...