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Means to an End. This same line was piped by Indian Delegate Jha as the U.N. Security Council met in response to Portugal's call for the U.N. to "denounce and rectify this lawless action of the Indian government." Said Jha bluntly: "This is a question of getting rid of the last vestiges of colonialism in India. Charter or no Charter, Security Council or no Security Council, that is our basic faith, which we cannot afford to give up at any cost." With breathtaking, topsy-turvy logic, Jha indicted Portugal as the aggressor. "It is not India that...
...Washington, which has been working desperately to help the Dominicans rid themselves of the Trujillos without leaving a vacuum for Communism to fill, the compromise seemed a workable answer if not a perfect one. President Kennedy hailed the solution, promised U.S. support in getting the sanctions lifted, increased sugar purchases, and the quick dispatch of Alliance teams to size up the country's development needs...
Principally, Walker waded into "censors" and "censorship" of the sort that had landed him in hot Army waters. Said he: "Censors dislike and distrust the military mind, and want to change it or get rid of it." Censorship, to Walker, is "the paralysis or denial of everything mental or physical that a commander, his command or a soldier requires for the full employment of his weapons and entire capability-the wherewithal of victory. To investigate censorship thoroughly is to defend States' rights. The responsibility rests with the individual to be knowledgeable, conditioned, and alert to identify unAmericanism and possible...
...have tried to get Katanga back under the wing of Leopoldville. At the Coquilhatville Conference last April, Tshombe was put under house arrest, kept until he agreed to join the central parliament. But back home in Katanga, he reneged on his agreement. Tshombe continually defied U.N. orders to get rid of the Belgian and other white soldiers (see box, p. 20) who were his major support. Finally last August, U.N. troops began an ill-fated action to force Tshombe ,to end his secession-an action that ended in a humiliating cease-fire maintaining the status quo and in Dag Hammarskjold...
...great studios turned out an army of naked gods, young shepherds, heroes on horseback, satyrs and saints. Many were received with such affection that they acquired a gleaming patina from the caresses of their owners. They were used as decorations for furniture, as inkwells, even as perfume burners to rid the air of the stench of sewage. But mostly they were loved as works of art in themselves...