Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman's Committee on Civil Rights (which recommended an FEPC), he insisted that, he had dissented on the matter of compulsion. His supporters went further, ran an ad which said: "When Frank Graham speaks, the Senate listens. Graham can win votes against FEPC." fc Obviously designed to be confused with Walter White, executive secretary...
Things were looking up a bit in Burma. The government had driven both the two chief rebel forces, the Karens and the White Flag Communists, from their respective strongholds, Toungoo and Prome. Last week the government had one less foe in its many-sided civil war: the White Band PVOs (People's Volunteer Organization) surrendered. PVO Leader Bo La Yaung (whose name means "Officer Moonshine") talked with War Minister Bo Ne Win (whose name means "Officer Sunshine"), then ordered his 7,000 troops to "emerge from darkness and work in the light in a democratic way." Thus ended Burma...
...that time the French were up to their necks in a costly campaign to crush Ho Chi Minh and his Communist bid for power. The civil war has cut rice production in half and disrupted the rest of Indo-China's economy. It has tied down 130,000 French troops, about half of the Fourth Republic's army, and thereby weakened the contribution France might make to Western Europe's defense. In lives, the Indo-China war has cost the French 50,000 casualties. In money, it has cost $2 billion-just about the sum of ECAid...
...gradual independence within the new French Union. Bao was persuaded. On March 8, 1949, he signed the document creating the new Indo-Chinese Republic which he would head as chief of state. As he left the gaudy safety of the Riviera for the hazards of a country torn by civil war, he grinned and said: "I risk my skin." French Communists snarled: "Cet empereur des boites de nuit [this nightclub emperor...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...