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...India. Red China announced its "resolute support." No word of protest was heard in India. Draped in a cloak of injured innocence, the Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities in Macao and Africa had interned 30,000 Indian passport holders, "because this is the kind of step usually taken against enemy aliens on the outbreak of war; India...
Unhappily, he sold too well-and he knew too well what the public would buy. When he accepted an invitation to lecture in Germany during the Nazi occupation of France, his personal stature plummeted along with his stature as an artist. Cynical, bitter, and physically gross, he withdrew to his country mansion to pursue his favorite hobbies: speeding in his Bugatti sports car and gorging himself on food. His wife left him, and when he made headlines in 1954 after being hit by a car, many art lovers thought he was already dead. Two months later...
Nehru has been trying to get Portugal to pull out of Goa (pop. 700,000) since the British withdrew from India in 1947* Unlike France, which reluctantly quit its last Indian possessions in 1954, Portugal's Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar insists that the 451-year-old colony, like his country's other overseas possessions, is a Portuguese "province." After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them...
...demand a degree of political or military surrender from the Finns. But next day Khrushchev relaxed his muscle, granted Kekkonen's request for an indefinite postponement of the joint military consultations. In the meantime, Kekkonen's chief rival for the presidency in next year's elections withdrew from the race, assuring Kekkonen of another six-year term as chief of state. This may have been the Kremlin's goal all along, for in the past Khrushchev has usually found Kekkonen's nimble neutrality satisfactory enough...
...cost of maintaining the jets had become an unbearable burden. Six weeks ago, Hughes once again came to the rescue, guaranteed to pay Northeast's fuel bills. But when the CAB ominously wondered out loud whether he might be gaining control of the line illegally, Hughes abruptly withdrew his support...