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...agree with everything Secretary Dulles says, but I am tired of diplomatic doubletalk. We do not have to be blunt and offensive, but it is time we were honest...
...from the jungles that Ho Chi Minh is on the march. In a few days his Red troops launched attacks against 15 French outposts. The long-anticipated big offensive seemed only weeks, perhaps days away. With their new spirit and their new commander, the French Union forces expect to blunt the attack. After that, the best the West can look forward to is a long and costly battle of attrition...
Almost as astounding as the blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned...
Benson's original policy statements were perhaps too blunt and badly timed. Drought and falling prices were affecting farmers and cattlemen from Ohio to Texas, and they were getting worried. At just that moment the Administration spoke its piece. By the time I reached the Midwest and the plains states opinion seemed to be firming up that Ike would have to be notified that the farm program would have to stay as is, and that if he didn't accept the notification, a lot of farmers would go back to voting Democratic...
...agents to slip across the border and sabotage the elections. But alert police and hastily mobilized West German youth organizations thwarted them: they were picked up by the thousands and jailed or bundled back across the border. To help him win, the U.S. Secretary of State made a blunt appeal for an Adenauer victory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and unwittingly gave Konrad Adenauer's most threatening opponents, the Social Democrats, an issue they sorely wanted. It embarrassed Adenauer's Christian Democratic coalition somewhat, but it came providentially late in the campaign...