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After twelve years as joint political columnists, Brothers Joseph and Stewart Alsop announced this week that their double-domed partnership will end March 1. Reason for the split: the Saturday Evening Post has offered Stewart Alsop, 43, newly created job that "I cannot refuse." As the Satevepost's contributing editor for national affairs, Stewart will still be based n Washington, but will travel widely on stories in the U.S. and abroad...
Slowly tempers cooled. In Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba relaxed his blockade of French bases enough to permit the entry of civilian trucks carrying food. In Paris, too, there were second thoughts. From the start Foreign Minister Pineau had been privately dismayed by the attack on Sakiet. (When U.S. Columnist Joseph Alsop quoted him as calling the bombing "a sad error," Pineau at first flatly denied the quote, then admitted, "I may have said a few imprudent words" which Alsop had "distorted...
...while Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop sniped at Dulles and Chicago Publisher John S. Knight clamored for his resignation. Columnist David Lawrence noted: "If ever a man should be loved for the enemies he has made, it is John Foster Dulles...who believes that the U.S. should be guided by its conscience in world affairs and should not encourage gangsterism or the exploitation of weak and undeveloped countries by imperialists. He is convinced that moral force can win the support of right-thinking people throughout the world, and that meanwhile a strong military force, capable of massive retaliation...
...there had been indecision, started reversing the policies that had caused the U.S. to fall behind in the struggle for technological superiority. "More decisions have been made in the Pentagon in the last six weeks than in the last six years," cried Texas' Lyndon Johnson. Said Pundit Stewart Alsop in an otherwise gloom-ridden column last week: "It begins to seem possible that the soap industry has miraculously given this lucky country a first-rate Secretary of Defense...
Columnist STEWART ALSOP...