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Since the French deposed and exiled fractious Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef last year, they have had no trouble with the complaisant new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. But they have had plenty of trouble with Istiqlal nationalists, who scorn the new Sultan as a stooge. Since last August...
Though the British have killed 4,600 Mau Mau in firefights and by execution, the terror in Kenya lives on. Last week the Security forces completed Operation Anvil, rounding up 35,000 Africans in the capital city of Nairobi. Of these, they penned 26,500 Kikuyu in concentration camps, or...
But more fundamentally, policy making is not the business of any outsider, no matter how it is done. The policy itself and its execution alone are subject to criticism. Thus Mr. Shoup is liable to criticism only as the producer of the club's choice. In this role I believe...
Black Smoke. Ever since the execution last year of the MVD's pasty-faced boss, Lavrenty Beria, there have been reports of trouble within the MVD itself. The surrender to the West of an MVD agent, Yuri Rastvorov, in Japan last January, the defection of Khokhlov in West Germany...
Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters...