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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...China has not asked to be admitted to the U.N. as such; it has instead protested the legal status of Nationalist China's seat on the Security Council, on the ground that the Nationalist China government no longer represents the Chinese. Since 1956, the General Assembly has rejected proposals to put the question of China's U.N. representation on its agenda, but by an increasingly narrow margin...
...from everywhere have been marshaled to reaffirm Soviet supremacy against China's challenge, but China's Mao Tse-tung has deprived Nikita Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith-at the summit itself. He sent his No. 2 man instead. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Winter-Garden Summit...
...Leopoldville last July to visit the new Patrice Lumumba government, he found an eager ally in Communist-leaning Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes, to gain allies for Peking's struggle for world recognition...
Travel in Europe follows well-worn paths in and out of cathedrals, galleries, great museums and famous restaurants. The U.S. visitor is culturally never very far from home. But the Far East is a plunge into the strange and unfamiliar. Music suddenly becomes an atonal screeching; men bow instead of shaking hands, sit cross-legged on the floor to eat dinner and mostly wear twisted cloths or even skirts instead of trousers. The straight lines of Western architecture are replaced by curlicues and curves; landscapes become shrouded in Oriental mist; night sounds have an uneasy difference. And poverty...
...this could easily be lost unless the President-elect acts promptly and decisively. The Princeton conference declined to authorize its own pilot project, and placed its faith instead in the initiative of the Kennedy Administration. The new steering committee - including representatives from business, labor, education, churches, foundations - was asked to prepare a detailed prospectus for a "Peace Corps" program, and to present it to Kennedy and the new Congress