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...aggression in Laos. And from Moscow came a determinedly noncommittal Kremlin announcement on the border dispute between Red China and India. Clearly concerned lest Mao Tse-tung's aggressiveness sabotage Khrushchev's dream of establishing "Big Two" relations with the U.S.-and probably concerned, too, at the setback to Soviet wooing of the "uncommitted" nations-the U.S.S.R. for the first time in its 42-year history failed to rally full-throated to the support of a fellow Communist state. Said a State Department official, with unconcealed satisfaction: "Moscow is just learning about the problem of having allies...
...form their own multiracial National Party, devoted to slowly increasing African representation, which would assure democratic self-government by 1968 for Kenya. To regain his political luster, Mboya promptly announced a new party of his own-the all-African Kenya Independence Movement. But last week fate dealt Tom another setback: the Kenya government nipped K.I.M. in the bud by refusing to grant it a license to function throughout the colony...
DETROIT FREE PRESS : The affair leaves a bad taste. If it was a setback for President Eisenhower, it also added very little to the prestige of the Senate...
...Russians do not accept these concessions, chiefly because they know that a soverign Germany set up under any conditions (except with Russian soldiers counting the ballots) will march right into NATO at the first legal opportunity; they cannot afford a setback of this kind. So any compromise on re-unification will have to give Germany less than complete sovereignty in her foreign affairs...
Instead of capital investment abroad, the Germans have been more interested in vigorous trading, preferring to sell on faster deliveries, better-designed products, and, in some cases, cheaper prices. The British setback had been obscured by the pleasant short-term fact of prosperity in Britain's trade and payments balance. Britain has done well in the lush dollar markets, less well elsewhere. Last year Britain earned the biggest surplus of foreign exchange in its history. But it was achieved mainly by holding down imports-at the cost of limiting production and consumption at home-rather than by energetic...