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Austin thus functions in a tightly controlled compass. His effectiveness depends largely on the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy. When that policy emerged clear and firm, as it did during the North Korean invasion last summer and during last week's debate over the moral condemnation of Red China (see above), Austin's performance was eloquent and forceful. When policy seemingly vacillated, as earlier this month in Washington's order for its U.N. delegation to approve an appeasing petition to Peking, Austin's hand appeared palsied...
...Strength of the Powers, 1939; Attack Can Win in 1943); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Werner fled successively from the Ukraine to Germany to France to the U.S. (in 1940), wrote a dogmatic column that ran in some 90 U.S. newspapers, ranging from New York's leftist Compass to the Kansas City Star...
Jessamyn West's first novel has a homespun beginning, but a rough trail lies ahead. As she showed in The Friendly Persuasion (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946), Author West can take a graceful path with a short story. This time she sets her compass for some 400 pages of turn-of-the-century ironic tragedy and mires down...
Lippold says that his pylon is really a "worldtree," a "three-dimensional statement of the world unity idea." The main branches of Lippold's tree are "reaching to the four points of the compass," its trunk digs down into the earth, its extremities are "still growing, unclouded, in space." The whole thing symbolizes "continuous growth...
Richard Lippold, its sculptor, says, "This piece is really a 'world-tree,' its four main branches reaching to the main ponts of the compass, its trunk in the earth, and its extremities still growing, uncluded, in space...