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...irritated by what he considered the President's dilettante interest in the Navy, and refused to yield to Roosevelt's blandishments. With retirement age in mind, he wrote F.D.R. in 1942: "I should bring to your notice the fact that the record shows that I shall attain the age of 64 years on November 23rd." The scrawled notation he got back shivered his steely timbers: "So what, old top? I may even send you a birthday present!-F.D.R...
...criminals, 3) repatriation of Japanese prisoners still held by the Russians, 4) the abolition of war toys throughout the world. Said Fellowship President Dr. Gunapala Malalasekera of Ceylon: "We earnestly call upon the world's leaders . . . quickly to pay heed to the teaching of Sakyamuni,* so as to attain a world of selfless concord...
...slipped further and further into the past, liberalism has quietly hardened. Where once it was an attitude, it became a program, and where once it was a program, it is now a religion. Liberalism is presently too much a matter of setting rigid standards--which politicians can attain only by voting "right" on a handful of issues--of black and white convictions, of catch phrases, and of automatic responses...
...attain the dream...
...Kennan's own, for it is his analysis of Russia which for the past five years has formed the heart of U.S. policy. Containment is Kennan's catchword. As "Mr. X" writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...