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Little Vigor. The testimony caused uneasy stirrings in London. It was pointed out that to have given the Nazis 10,000 trucks to use on the Russian front would have split the Allies just when Hitler was on the brink of collapse. In the face of tight-lipped official silence, the London Times stated that the Jews-for-trucks deal was rejected by Zionists as well as the Allies on the well-founded conviction that the Nazis could not be trusted: "Events soon hardened their suspicions. The extermination of Hungarian Jews was not halted for the two weeks that...
Amid the soft fog of irresolution that settled on the Kennedy Administration after the Cuba disaster, some vague and scattered signs of clearing were visible last week. "We're on the brink of a lot of things now," said a high-up White House aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret...
...from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week's meeting of the Warsaw Pact (the Communist version of NATO) to get the cooled-off Berlin cauldron boiling again. Big Stick. Khrushchev was obviously engaging Kennedy in a contest of at-the-brink nerves. If he could force Kennedy to back down, the President's authority and prestige, his capacity to lead the U.S. and the free world, would be gravely damaged. Kennedy elected to meet the attack, and to meet it on the question of Laos-even though that...
...Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams all but went native on a tour of Africa; and the Administration's Peace Corps idea stirred a surge of response (see Youth). But still the Congo slipped a little farther into chaos, and Laos teetered on the brink...
Died. Henry Baker, 54, slight, mild-mannered onetime dental technician and professional burglar whose 26-year career was capped in January 1950, when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital...