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FOREIGN RELATIONS An Asia Policy Will Russia blunder into war? Probably not in Europe, where allied defense lines are already drawn and few power vacuums exist, said Tom Dewey last week. But in the Pacific, the Kremlin can still make the fatal miscalculation. Dewey's solution, arrived at during a two-month tour of the Pacific: "Start immediately to build a well-rounded and complete Pacific mutual-defense alliance...
...Korea, said Dewey to the Manhattan convention of the American Bar Association, "the United States issued an engraved invitation to Stalin to launch his conquest . . . Normally, Stalin does not need more than one engraved invitation . . ." The new mutual-defense treaties with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are welcome, but do not go far enough: "We are going about this business by bits and pieces and getting ourselves as a nation into a dangerous position . . . What about the Philippines? The island of Formosa is essential to the defense of the Philippines [yet] our national Government has been on-again...
...Next day Dewey saw Scott for a long talk, then flew back to New York. Clearly, the campaign for Ike was beginning to roll, and Dewey was pushing it hard...
...stand that "it takes guts and skill to run a locomotive, and there's risk, and that's worth money." In 1946, the President's threat to draft striking railroaders into the Army so angered Johnston that he broke all relations with the Administration, supported Dewey...
Every region brags of the fabulous rise of local favorites. Texans have seen obscure Delhi Oil Corp., whose stock sold for $1.10 in 1944, run up to $38. Dewey & Almy Chemical (Cambridge, Mass.), which sold at eleven in 1949, has reached the equivalent of 57½. Chicago's Emhart Manufacturing Co. (flexible plastic bottles) has soared from $50 to $80 in three months. Californians recount the wonders of Signal Oil & Gas Co.'s four-year rise from 85 to the equivalent...