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Until recently, party papers sang the glories of worker comrades who spent their lunch hours in the factory tool shed inventing new equipment. Last week the new Communist hero was the tiller of the soil. Exhorted Peking's People's Daily: "The foremost frontier of socialist construction lies in the villages. If we relax the rapid development of agriculture and isolatedly stress the privileged development of heavy industry, the whole national economy will be hindered." More than 6,000,000 high school and college students have been routed out of class and sent into the country. More than...
...MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE: VOL. III, SALVATION 1944-1946. The last volume of De Gaulle's Memoirs grimly but eloquently describes what happened when the triumphant hero found himself on home soil surrounded by politicians who, according to him, preferred intrigue and political anarchy to his own iron patriotism...
...demoralize the Western Powers and their public opinion as to get their way without any reciprocal concessions, unilateral or multilateral. By threatening to send rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that they will compel their governments to give...
...riots a year ago looked like real trouble. Lately the outlook has improved with the inauguration of enlightened Oligarch Roberto Chiari as President, plus a friendship drive by U.S. officials, and a U.S. decision to let the Panamanian flag fly beside the Stars and Stripes on Canal Zone soil...
...dragging conservatism, Mitchell emerged as an impassioned reformer. Extemporizing on "the shame of America" and the personal "blot on my conscience" he spoke bluntly of the power of the farm lobby and noted that what he called "the excluded Americans" had no voice in Congress, no organized force ("The soil has produced no Samuel Gompers or John L. Lewis," said Murrow). Mitchell's final vow: "As a citizen, in or out of office, I propose to continue to raise my voice until the country recognizes that it has an obligation to do something for them...