Word: adlai
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There are times when U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson seems not to care that U.S. public opinion-the ultimate determinant of national foreign policy-is not merely opposed to letting Red China into the U.N., but also strongly in favor of a continuing fight to keep...
Then, at week's end, came U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson to express his personal opinion that Jack Kennedy would be "happy" to meet with Khrushchev if Nikita attends the United Nations General Assembly sessions in March-a suggestion that was greeted with cheers in the Russian press. And State Secretary Rusk followed up with a "clarification" of the statement he had made earlier in the week. "We do intend to use our ambassadors abroad fully," said Rusk, "but that does not mean that we are rejecting the possibility of other types of meetings." Thus, said Rusk...
Arthur M. (for Meier) Schlesinger Jr., Special Assistant to the President. Harvard history professor and prolific author of articles and books (The Age of Jackson, The Age of Roosevelt), Schlesinger is a Ph.D. in doctrinaire liberalism. A leader of Americans for Democratic Action, he was Adlai Stevenson's adviser and speechwriter in 1952 and 1956, swung away in 1960 when it looked as if Kennedy would be the front runner in the presidential primary campaigns. He was a top man in Kennedy's campaign brain trust. Schlesinger, 43, will have no specific assignment, but will write a speech...
...Impossible to Prevent." Adlai came first, and after his ornate tribute to the United Nations and its importance, Iowa's conservative Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper hurled the first sharp question about Communist China: "Would it be fair to say that you have taken a quite consistent position that Red China should be admitted to the United Nations...
There was a slight edge in Adlai's reply: "No, I don't think I've ever taken that position. I've said that some time it may be necessary." To Stevenson, that some time seemed likely to come soon. United Nations backing for the U.S. stand against the admittance of Red China to the U.N., he argued, has been steadily diluted in recent years, particularly with the entry into the U.N. of aborning Afro-Asian nations. Thus, Communist China's membership in the U.N. "may be impossible to prevent...