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Elizabeth's dashing husband relieved some of the sedate stiffness of the tour. A world-traveled navy veteran, five years older than his wife, Philip was completely relaxed and took the acclaim in stride. His whispered asides helped ease Elizabeth's nervousness, sometimes brought a spontaneous smile to the Princess' face at taut moments. Philip's warm interest in the people and sights made him a solid hit with the crowds along the Canadian tour route. U.S. correspondents who traveled with the royal train fully expected that the handsome duke would also shine in Washington. Said...
...Washington rumor that will not down bobbed up again last week, with a new twist and from a new source. Secretary of State Acheson will quit before Oct. 1 on the wave of acclaim that is expected to roll out of the Korean truce and the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, reported the pro-Acheson New York Post. Reported successor: W. Averell Harriman, who is getting his buildup for the job in Iran. The White House put out its usual comment: "Nothing to it." But on Capitol Hill many top Democrats continue to think that Dean Acheson will...
Such moviemakers as Russia's Sergei Eisenstein-who got in trouble by making Czar Ivan the Terrible look too terrible-could have told Sun that the party line is not easily threaded through a movie projector. Just as Sun's acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression...
Rhee's dictatorial tactics are misleading. After a personal interview, a "Reporter" magazine writer asserts, "By both public acclaim and by moral conviction, he is a champion of democracy . . . I could not help wondering whether he might . . . be serving out his last year as a front for a clique of army and police officers . . . he showed many signs of his advanced years. Now, when his dream for a united Korea may be shattered by peace negotiations or by what he would consider an untimely end to the war with he Communists, he is determined to lay down...
General Fremont's edict of military emancipation elicited almost universal acclaim throughout the North. But it alarmed the President [and] constituted a serious blow to his efforts to retain Maryland, Kentucky and other border states in the Union ... He issued an order altering Fremont's proclamation so that it should conform to and not "transcend" the act of Congress ... A storm of indignation broke out throughout the North . . . Outraged Abolitionists clamored for the impeachment of Lincoln; and Fremont supporters proposed him as Lincoln's successor...