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...this whole area we have to realize that certain risks must be taken," said Secretary of State Dulles at his news conference. "There are risks if you do and risks if you don't. One has to balance the risks on one side and the other." And the best word at week's end was that the U.S., caught between necessities of defense and heavy pressure to placate "world opinion," intended to strike a balance of 1) pressing home this year's Eniwetok nuclear-weapons tests come clamor, come what may; but 2) considering, after Eniwetok, whether...
When he puts his mind to it, President Eisenhower can make a rousing partisan speech with the best of them. But in his day-to-day dealings, Ike is so coolly detached from GOPartisanship that the party bosses shiver. Last week their teeth chattered at this piece of cool detachment during the presidential news conference...
...record eleven hours. Twice during the discussion angry right-wing ministers stalked out to unburden their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously lighting one Gitane cigarette off another...
Putting the best possible face on the firings, Poland's economic bosses emphasize that there are fields in which labor is short in Poland-coal mining, construction, public transport. These will provide jobs for some of the displaced workers; others will probably return to the farm or find work in the devastated and unpopular western provinces that Poland got from Germany at the end of World War II. But the cold fact remains that the government apparently plans the dismissal of 200,000 to 300,000 workers for whom there will be no other jobs anywhere...
...Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would be the best guarantee that they would not fall under the influence...