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Worse than '03. The roaring tide delivered its most crushing blow at a target that was expected to resist it. The Kaw flows into the Missouri River at the Kansas Cities. There the low-lying industrial districts are protected by flood walls as high as 22 feet, built to cope with high water equal to that of the previous record flood in 1903. The flood of '51 roared over the levees, covered the Santa Fe's great transfer yards and shops, inundated the spreading stockyards, coursed through factories. Rescue workers had a hard time convincing some oldtime...
Main recommendations: !) slow down rearmament and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia; 2) restrain the "breakneck" pace of U.S. rearmaments; 3) resist German rearmament and Franco Spain's admission to the Atlantic alliance; 4) maintain veto power over any warlike mission of a U.S. bomber using British bases; 5) use more stringent socialist controls to keep down the cost of living in Britain; 6) establish, with Russian participation, a World Mutual Aid Plan (which would have to be largely financed by the wicked, capitalist U.S.) to help underprivileged countries...
...Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only the first.' " Planes roared overhead and scattered leaflets on the crowd below. The message: "Resist American Imperialism...
...Calvinist tradition, even when far from democracy as the world knows it today, stood for limitation of the monarchy, the mutual obligations of the ruler and the ruled, and the duty of the individual to resist any interference by state or hierarchy between him and his God. Calvinism's left wing, says Nichols, helped build the "Puritan Protestantism" which contributed more to democratic ways & means than any other Christian strain...
...hills. Last week, Peking announced it was launching a six-month-long, nationwide drive for money to buy war materials. The "volunteers" in Korea, warned government spokesmen, were in desperate need of more tanks, more guns, more cars, more clothing, more drugs. In a carefully detailed directive, the vast Resist America and Aid Korea Committee outlined the contributions that would be expected over the next six months from all Chinese. Contributions in gold, jewelry, dollars or any other foreign currency were called for. "Wealthy individuals" were especially ordered to pay up; workers were urged to increase production...