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...space of 30 minutes last week, Dwight Eisenhower recaptured for the U.S. great tracts of lost diplomatic ground. Before the President made his U.N. speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. had drifted into bootless "You're another" exchanges with Russia and Egypt-exchanges from which all parties emerged somewhat soiled. After Ike's speech the U.S. again stood clearly before the world, not as a spokesman for the Middle Eastern status quo, good or bad, but as a power devoted to orderly international evolution. In the process, the half-convincing Soviet picture of the U.S. and Britain...
...Bootless but commendable is the campaign by Toledo's Planned Parenthood League to control birth by pamphlet [July 7]. It recognizes an imminent population problem-even for the prosperous...
...outlawing the congress in four native reserves, forbidding Africans to assemble in groups of more than ten in urban centers, sending squads of club-swinging police on raids in native shantytowns. They need not have bothered: few Africans seemed disposed to give up three days' pay for a bootless protest...
...Rivero's calming words were showing little effect; in the long run they might prove to be potent arguments. While most Cubans opposed Batista, many of them were also tiring of Castro's bootless, unremitting violence...
...often expressed on the clubwomen's circuit, that if only Nehru knew Americans better he would understand them. The difficulty with this notion is that Nehru himself knows all he wants to know about the U.S. and understands what he wants to understand about the U.S. It is bootless to measure Nehru as a friend of the U.S., which he is not particularly. Nor does he ask to be so measured...