Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since they achieved independence in 1947, India and Pakistan have been quarreling-over Kashmir, over Moslem and Hindu evacuees, over irrigation water, over currency and trade. Last week their little cold war sharpened tellingly...
...countries need each other economically, but by last week trade between them had almost stopped...
...Amsterdam's Royal Palace one morning last week, 335 frock-coated Dutch and Indonesian officials gathered around a green baize table to hear Juliana, Queen of The Netherlands, end 340 years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. Juliana entered the palace hall followed by her husband, Prince Bernhard. From her crimson-upholstered armchair, she spoke clearly and melodiously: "Immeasurable," said she, "is the satisfaction of a nation that finds its liberty realized . . ." As Juliana finished, the palace carillon pealed out first the Indonesian and then the Dutch anthem, and one of her four uniformed lackeys fell flat on his face...
Change the Pictures. At week's end, the fledgling government seemed to be hitting its stride. In the executive mansion, President Soekarno began receiving the new envoys to Indonesia. The first to present his credentials was Economic Expert Dr. Hans M. Hirschfeld, the Dutch Government's choice as the first Netherlands High Commissioner to the United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through...
Ever since the armies of Communist China rolled up to the borders of Hong Kong last fall, an apprehensive British administration had wondered when the Reds would try to take Hong Kong itself.. Last week, the five-starred flag of Soviet China fluttered ominously in Hong Kong, but the Red army was still on the other side of the border'. How long they would stay there would depend in large measure on the wisdom Hong Kong's rulers displayed in the colony's latest labor crisis...