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Because of its new-found sense of direction, because it is strong and growing stronger, the Navy no longer needs to indulge in defensive sniping at the Air Force and Army. In its cockier moments it can still rile the Air Force, as Navy Secretary Thomas did when he told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee: "With its newest planes, now being introduced into the fleet, there will be few important targets in the world that the Navy, if called upon, could not reach with atomic weapons." Replied Air Chief General Nathan Twining last week: "We must be realistic about such factors...
...results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger World War III; that the new gang is a somewhat sedentary set of revolutionaries (compared, for example, with the cockier, more aggressive new rulers of China). Some or all of these assumptions might be fatally wrong, but they are widely held...
...veto paralyzed the council, the OAS Inter-American Peace Commission held itself in readiness to take up the Guatemalan question. But events in the narrow streets and bush trails of Guatemala could move faster than any commission ; the Arbenz regime could be shattered - or it could emerge victorious and cockier than ever. Jacobo Arbenz, stubborn as ever, clapped on a tougher form of martial law, tightened up on blackouts, authorized his cops to shoot motorists caught with headlights on during a night alert...
...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
Reading the national Scoreboard, Stassen was even cockier. When he first arrived in Montpelier last week, he was "reasonably sure" of 200 first-ballot delegates. By the time he left Portland, five days later, he thought he could count on 230 (against Dewey's estimated 350 and Taft's 200 to 250), including 17 of New England's 30 votes. Said Stassen confidently: "I would not change places with any other candidate at the moment." Who did he think was the man to beat? Replied Stassen with a grin: "Mr. Truman...