Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Korean decision, the U.S. has decided to strengthen its help to the anti-Communist forces in Indo-China. If the U.S. moves fast, Indo-China can be saved-unless a Chinese Communist army crosses the border. But that would be a costly move for the Kremlin to make. Indo-Chinese do not like the Chinese, and Asians would be horrified at such "imperialism" by one Asiatic country against another...
...mouse and an assault on it could be made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably...
...than mouse himself, and it will take the Red army itself, not the Balkan satellites, to catch him. (Currently, the Bulgarian army is mobilized and stamping its feet on Tito's border. If Russian forces move in the same direction, the U.S. may have another Korea decision to make...
...health for a man of 70. The last outsiders to see him were members of the Finnish trade delegation which signed a treaty with the U.S.S.R. last month. Stalin, dressed in the grey uniform of a Soviet marshal, offered the Finns cigars, expressing regret that they were of Russian make and therefore no good, Russia having made cigars such a short while. Minister of Trade and Industry Sakari S. Tuomioja replied that they were not the best, but quite good nevertheless. A longish argument on the subject of cigars ensued, into which Premier Urho K. Kekkonen entered, saying, "Tuomioja defends...
...week ended on a more cheerful note: the 17 European countries in the Marshall Plan unanimously agreed to set up a European Payments Union (TIME, June 12). When operating, EPU will make their currencies-even sterling-almost fully interchangeable for the first time since World War II. Said a pleased Dutch delegate: "The whole Schuman Plan could not function without EPU. It is the basis for our work...