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...meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army, a private organization made up of Army and ex-Army men and a loud-speaking outlet for top-level Army propaganda. On hand to stir them on were the Army's senior commanders, striving both by indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete...
...Princetonian was happy to accept this, the miniature crisis seemed to have come to a halt. But the teacup had not stopped boiling, it had just slowed to a simmer for a day. On Wednesday, the President of the Lampoon gave his answer to Princeton in particularly blunt terms...
...Glory of Freedom. It was into this atmosphere that NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak stepped one afternoon with a blunt suggestion: As a next step, why shouldn't Ike and Macmillan both attend the NATO conference in Paris next December? Both probably will...
Getting Tito's Goat. Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon...
Lodge added a blunt warning: "The U.S. will not be stopped by threats or by defamation from continuing to offer its understanding and support to those nations of the Middle East which are being threatened by the Soviet Union and whose independence the Soviet Union seeks to destroy. Let there be no question about our capacity to offer this support. We are strong and our allies are strong...