Western leaders shift tone as Berlin crisis looms
France joins NATO at higher pace, de Gaulle warns Moscow of Berlin crisis consequences. Adenauer taunts the Kremlin amid East German flight spills and calls for free elections toward German unity. Congress debates Khrushchev food shortages to expose his economic claims. The West gains initiative in the global propaganda battle.
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Charles de Gaulle
NATO
Moscow
Berlin
Adenauer
West Germany
West
Kremlin
Germany
U.S
Khrushchev
Columbia College Suspends Course In Contemporary Civilization
Columbia College New York suspends a sophomore required course in contemporary civilization, citing its increasing complexity makes instruction by a standard diploma mill system impossible. The action prompts editorial commentary on the broader implications for pundits politicians and public discourse as society seeks direction.
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Columbia College
New York City
Columbia
Witness Whittaker Chambers Publicly Ends His Troubled Life
The Witness Passes Death reviews Whittaker Chambers as a figure split between Communist courier and repentant informer. His testimony, marked by the Pumpkin Papers, contributed to Alger Hiss's perjury conviction and revealed a decade of State Department suppression of Chambers' charges.
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Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Bowles and the Kennedy Admin tangled in policy reshuffle
The piece portrays Bowles amid a possible State Department reshuffle under President Kennedy. It notes White House and State Department opposition to Bowles, Bowles's loyalty to Rusk, and debates over Laos China policy and U N positions. It cites Killian committee studies and a potential new Bowles role aimed at boosting US relations with emerging nations.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Pauline
Childs
White House
State Department
Bowles
Dean Rusk
Department
Rusk
Space Launching Sites Question Raised By Florida Weather
The piece questions Cape Canaveral's suitability for manned space launches after Grissom's scrubbed flight. It notes July to September cloud cover averages, weighs weather risks, and cites Lt. Col. Shorty Powers and Ed Diamond while discussing potential sites and the Nova and Saturn missions.
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Bob Considine
Cape Canaveral
Gus Grissom
U.S. Weather Bureau
National Aeronautical and Space Administration
Considine
Sunshine State
Chambers of Commerce
Jacksonville
Miami
Ed Diamond
International News Service
Newsweek
Canaveral
Diamond
Shorty Powers
Shorty
Florida
California
Graustauk
Grissom
Voting In South A Deep Problem
A Washington Notebook discusses Southern congressmen criticizing the U S attorney general over voting rights for qualified African Americans while taking federal aid for their districts. It cites C Van Woodward on rural over representation and the ongoing struggle to secure meaningful suffrage, noting Jim Crow’s fade but its ghost lingering in the South.
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Washington
U.S
C. van Woodward
Arkansas
South
van Woodward
West Africa
National
Booker T. Washington
White House
Alabama
Summit in the Offing as Soviet Russia Expected to Reject
Foreign News Digest reports notes from cables signaling a forthcoming Soviet rejection of Western proposals. The item hints at an imminent summit and possible shifts in East West diplomacy.
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Russia
Readers’ Letter Praises Editorial on Scottsdale Annexation
The editor thanks the Progress for its editorial and artwork praising annexation to Scottsdale. The letter also discusses Cold War tensions, Berlin crisis diplomacy, potential new summits, and upcoming British decisions on domestic policy and joining the European six.
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Scottsdale
Harold Macmillan
Berlin
Macmillan
Britain
Great Britain
Washington Report Nazi Ties Alleged in East German Officials
East German press and Communist outlets accuse Bonn rulers and officials of Nazi pasts. The piece lists numerous figures and party numbers linking former Nazi membership to current East German leadership and juridical figures.
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Washington
Konrad Adenauer
Horst Drebler-Andreb
Nazi Party
Reich Ministry of Public Information and Propaganda
Verlag der Nation
Gunter Hofe
Herbert Kroger
Walter Ulbricht Academy For Political and Legal Sciences
Babelsberg
Kroger
East German Republic
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World Organization
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Democratic Party
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Washington Report
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Gunter Kertzscher
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Hans W. Aust
Kurt Blecha
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Curt Sauberlich
People’s Chamber
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Wolfgang Heyl
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