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...West Germany's President Theodor Heuss went about Washington on a genial state visit, the West German government last week informed the U.S. that it is no longer prepared to pay any costs of supporting U.S. troops in Germany. Bonn's note, described as "blunt," was not made public. Reportedly, the Germans explained that their recent $100 million troop-cost settlement with Britain (TIME, April 28) was simply an act of mutual aid to a NATO ally in economic difficulties and hence could not be regarded as a precedent for further payments to the U.S. The theory...
...hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial first 36 hours, the Air Force could lift no more than one battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take...
...Shower of Glass. The spitting began as the Nixons walked along the troop-lined red carpet toward their limousines. The band made a futile attempt to quiet the crowd by playing the Venezuelan national anthem; Pat Nixon shamed a hooting, teen-aged girl into silence by reaching over the guards' bayonets to take her hand. As the Nixons got into separate cars for the ten-mile superhighway trip up the coastal range to the capital, demonstrators tried to blind the drivers by draping banners over the windshields. Only when the mob was left behind...
Scarcely a single, clear-cut, concerted decision was taken by the leading Allies (Britain, France, Japan and the U.S.) during six months (March through August 1918) of diplomatic maneuverings leading up to joint troop landings on Russian soil. Author Kennan makes plain that the initial urge to intervene was based not on the Bolshevik but the German menace. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war and left the Germans free to mount what was to be their last massive offensive on the Western Front. The Allies also feared that the port of Murmansk and tens...
...Polish "Toto" slipped over the border of Vichy France into German-occupied Paris. Within a few months their espionage network, named "Inter-Allied," included some 200 agents who kept up steady radio and courier communication with London, fed British intelligence information about German troop concentrations, barracks, antiaircraft defenses, etc. British agents came to cherish the familiar coded words on the wireless: "To Room 55a, War Office, London: The Cat reports...