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Security Council to the U.S. position on Guatemala (see HEMISPHERE) On this point, Dulles won a little victory: Eden graciously agreed that henceforth Britain would abstain rather than vote against the U.S. on the Guatemala issue...
Wang also countercharged that some 5,000 Chinese students are illegally detained in the U.S. (only a few hundred of these asked for exit permits, which in most cases were granted). Then, unexpectedly, Wang thawed. Last week he promised that henceforth the Americans will have mail privileges and Red Cross parcels. He even hinted that, if their behavior as prisoners was good, there might be "commutations" of sentence and releases. Consensus: the Chinese were holding out one more string, seeing how seriously the U.S. rose to the bait, testing to see how much the U.S. could be made...
...switch day, swarms of almond-eyed hostesses at Tokyo's splashy Kinbasha nightclub were offering their hard-earned MPCs for 10? on the dollar. One geisha house announced bitterly that henceforth it would do business "for the Japanese yen or the green American dollar only." An Army captain who had been trying for two months to sell his second-hand car for $2,100 was besieged by frantic Japanese car dealers offering him up to $5,000 in MPCs. In Korea the black-market price for $10 MPC dropped from 3,500 to 100 hwan by nightfall. Koreans pursued...
What kind of a fight would it be? If there was no solution at Geneva, Navarre predicted there would be "internationalization of the war"-meaning allied intervention. And for France? Henceforth from Dienbienphu, the old ways of war could no longer suffice. Robert Guillain, Le Monde's able correspondent, cabled a bitter valedictory from Hanoi...
...Cabinet relieved Juin of his posts in French army councils, but kept him on the job as NATO's Central European commander, leaving further action to NATO itself. Marshal Juin told General Gruenther that as a French citizen he had previously felt free to speak out, but that, henceforth, as an internationalized soldier he would mind his tongue. After some ruffled NATO members, notably The Netherlands and Belgium, had been soothed, it was decided to keep Juin...