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Moshe Dayan, devout student of Von Clausewitz and of U.S. airborne operations, was perhaps even more justified than the British and French in his self-congratulation. "I am confident," said Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, "that military histories will make a thorough study of this remarkable operation."
History lay on Major Eisenhower as he packed his bags and moved on to the Army's famed Command and General Staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Never before had he slogged so hard, and in the summer of 1926 Ike graduated at the top of the class of 275...
There can be no argument that development of the South, particularly in the field of education, is a very good thing. But in many instances a chamber of commerce approach to the region has fostered a feeling of self-contentment and congratulation: "Why should I go to Harvard for my...
If any misgivings were felt, few were expressed. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and his opposition member on the Labor bench, Nye Bevan, joined in mutual self-congratulation. The fact was that in deciding to accept Malta, everyone was all too conscious of unhappy events in another Mediterranean colony, Cyprus...
When President Eisenhower announced in his State of the Union Message that he would seek changes in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, most opponents of the Act predicted that the President would continue to mouth platitudes about the need for revision, but do nothing to pressure Congress into action. Fears...