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...faraway New Delhi, India's Prime Minister Nehru was still not ready to support the P.W.s. He suggested that their fate be "considered afresh" by the belligerents if there is no Korean Political Conference before Jan. 22, when P.W.s who do not succumb to explanations are due to go free. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles promptly reassured the P.W.s that they would indeed go free on Jan. 22, as the armistice agreement provides. Indian officers at Panmunjom guessed that Nehru was speaking "for external consumption." The P.W.s themselves trusted Nehru's autonomous agent...
...door to the conference room," said Stevenson, "is the door to peace. Let it never be said that America was reluctant to enter." He urged Western leaders to "think afresh" in terms of a European system of "durable assurances of nonaggression" with Russia. About Red China, he was somewhat more specific: "We owe it to ourselves . . . .at least to find out, if we can, what Communist China's ultimate intentions are." He said, "When we negotiate, we have to have something to negotiate with as well...
Citation: "You brought Jackie Robinson into national baseball . . . A hundred years from today, when the young men of America are reading the history of American baseball, they will come upon the story of this great creative change . . . They will discover afresh that this great creative change arose out of the deeply religious heart of ... Branch Rickey...
...Book Burning." Last week the battle on the left flared up afresh over a special 60-page issue of the Nation called How Free Is Free? The issue reported on civil liberties in the U.S., found them desperately menaced from all sides. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. found the U.S. turning "spies into heroes"; Matthew (The Robber Barons) Josephson discovered "book-burning" in schools and libraries. Scientists, charged Harvard pinko Professor (of geology) Kirtley F. Mather, have been hard hit because they "are peculiarly vulnerable to suspicion, recrimination and punishment." In education, entertainment, publishing, advertising and other fields, Nation...
...described the military array beyond the Iron Curtain, "deployed and poised as for war." Against the Soviet divisions stood the meager forces of free Europe. To build an adequate defensive shield, two big problems had to be solved: "How to persuade the nations of the free West to allocate afresh their resources in production and manpower," and how to organize strategically...