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Nonetheless, the headlines around the world next day were misleading. The voting was only for the state legislature, and even there, with the help of small parties, the Christian Democrats will be able to keep control. The vote was indeed a rebuff to 78-year-old Konrad Adenauer, but it was not a threat to his continuance in office. No matter how local elections go, his term runs until 1957, and-his two-thirds majority in the national Bundestag is the largest in Western Europe...
...Stopped gossip that he would rebuff the G.O.P. senatorial candidate in Illinois, Chicago Tribune-backed Joe Meek, by giving Meek an open letter of endorsement. In return, Ike got a written pledge of loyalty from Arch-Conservative Meek...
...without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...
Profitable Hours. The fact was that the policy was doomed from the start because it was made in a vacuum of unreality. It ran contrary to the basic policy of Britain's major ally, the U.S. (although U.S. policy fluttered indecisively under the impact of Eden's rebuff). Its premise was that the situation in IndoChina was an old-fashioned military stalemate, and that it was possible to negotiate with the Communists, even though, in this case, it was negotiation from weakness. Eden talked of not "prejudicing" the negotiations by hasty action, while the more realistic Communists prejudiced...
...vote of 256 to 137. But when it came before the Upper House last week, members balked. Instead of fines and jail sentences, they substituted "administrative punishment," i.e., reprimands or dismissals, which are seldom enforced in Japan. It was 75-year-old Premier Yoshida's first rebuff of the present Diet session...