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Even though it involves more work than most Departments, the School each year attracts about twice as many applicants as it can admit. In recent years, from 70 to 130 sophomores have applied for the 50 available places. To the delight of the college admissions office, the School attracts to Princeton intelligent students, interested in public affairs who might otherwise have gone, say, to Harvard (which has no similar undergraduate program...
...France is a second-rate power--militarily, strategically, and economically--and most of the politicians of the Fourth Republic were ready to admit it, if only in unguarded moments. The French remain part of the "Big" four only through archaic convention, and through the conviction of some Western leaders that being on the right side in World War II is more important than physical power in computing diplomatic "size...
...China with orders to try to bring a peace between China's Communists and the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kaishek. Never was a plan more tragically ill conceived, but Good Soldier Marshall did his best with it. Eleven months later he bitterly returned to the U.S. to admit the complete failure that he always suspected would attend his efforts in the Orient...
...Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing to sell his lease to a nonwhite, and finally, make a convincing demonstration...
...utilization of "Fascism." The Communists use the label of "Fascism" to condemn anything they oppose, and fascist techniques to foster what they favor. A fervent Arab communist would claim that anyone in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a fascist, while a more educated Czech communist would admit the fascists were "less than 10 per cent," but reach the same conclusion by the subtle historical error of giving them credit "as the elite who engineered the counter-revolution." When it came to proposing, the Festival rallies looked like films of Hitler's youth meetings in the 1930's with...