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...nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would be "Europeanized," i.e., granted political autonomy under the new seven-nation Western European Union, and continued in its postwar economic union with France. A commissioner, probably British, would oversee the Saar on behalf of WEU, but an elected Landtag...
...toward India; it started building military roads right up to India's frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China's leadership): an Indian army buildup a few hours ride back from the frontier and an urgent appeal...
...true that Red China was building airfields in Tibet? "No doubt," replied Nehru smoothly. "The only way of getting across Tibet is by air." Nehru admitted that borderland Nepal was "in a somewhat fluid state-not a very satisfactory state"; he could not say, precisely, "how many persons" had crossed the Nepalese frontier from Red China. "But if there is any conception that there are preparations being made in Tibet for some kind of invasion of India, I think that is a complete mistake ... In the final analysis, if it takes place, we will resist it-so why get afraid...
Moreover, China never ratified the 1913 Simla Convention, which roughly established the Himalayan mountain range as the Tibetan frontier and awarded "the southern watershed" to India and the border states. Red China's new school maps show much of India's borderland as Chinese territory...
...Spaniard. Then, to make her Spaniard happy, she gave him up to a younger woman. Misia's memoirs are written in low key. sometimes with the flatness of a diary. But despite her flaws as a writer, her story gives a revealing account of life on the borderland of Bohemia in a bygone Europe, and an engrossing picture of Misia herself. It might make a movie, a French movie...