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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...able, dogged Major General Lyman Lemnitzer had prodded and pushed MAP through Congress and the chancelleries of Europe. He had maneuvered it past an international minefield of patents (each country is now responsible to its citizens for payment of royalties) and a maze of different currencies (the Europeans have agreed to pay the expenses of American missions in local money...
...very much that's wrong with the British economy. Or rather, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there's plenty that's right with it ... Everyone who wants a job has a job and that's a great improvement on some past periods . . . There's rarely been a time when there was so little real poverty in the country as today...
...self-consciously white isolation, Australia was long coolly scornful of its yellow-skinned Asiatic neighbors. But for the past few years, Australia's foreign policy toward its neighbors has become warm and friendly. This has brought a new embarrassment: Australia's immigration barriers are scarcely in keeping with its posture of neighborliness...
...troublemaker was a part-Dutch, part-Turkish adventurer, named Raymond Paul Rocco ("Turk") Westerling, a professional soldier with a checkered past. Dashing Westerling fought with Australian troops in North Africa in 1940, later with the Dutch underground in Holland. After the war he helped organize a special Dutch force which was accused of murdering thousands of Celebes islanders during mopping-up operations. Kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, he began to recruit an army of his own, now estimated at close to 10,000 Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army...
...Blackmer is also highly successful in his portrayal of a man who tries not to look back, realizing that his past is sealed and he must go on despite...