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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have accused Lausche, with some justification, of political timidity. (Opposition newspapers have sneeringly dubbed him "Fearless Frank,'' and even Loyalist Louis Seltzer editorially blasted him for compromising on a truck tax bill.) He runs the state with just two aides, and spends hours arguing with himself over difficult decisions (in such moments he frequently plays the violin). Like a chess player, he is always thinking three moves ahead, weighing the political consequences...
...pictured as a man caught in the British Foreign Office "machine which, with the exception of the war period, was pursuing a policy unacceptable not only to Maclean, but also to many others . . . However, after the war he found himself more and more alone. It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone to think of something else than the Communist menace, to understand the senselessness and danger of American policy in the Far East and Europe...
...strong hint that Moscow "would like to have relations with Pakistan no less friendly than those with India" and might even be willing to give it some economic aid. It was a pity, he added, that Pakistan's partnership in the Baghdad pact had brought it "to difficult internal straits." Pravda made similar overtures to Turkey, Pakistan's partner in the Baghdad pact...
...Fearing Butchers. Kashruth can make demands at once difficult and subtle. At Passover, for instance, when leavened foods are prohibited, orthodox Jews must beware of soda pop containing food coloring made from an alcoholic base, which in turn is often manufactured from leavened grain. The Old Testament prohibition against cooking a kid in its mother's milk is extended in Jewish homes to maintaining separate dishes for meat and dairy products. Explains Housewife Dorothy Tresley, an M.A. in educational psychology: "I have 4½ sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces...
...demonstrates in A Forest of Tigers that the novelist holds cards the diplomat could never hope to draw. The proving ground is Indo-China around 1950, when the Communists had fully shown their hand but had not yet begun their big push. How was the U.S. to handle its difficult French allies, faction-ridden Viet Nam, the everlasting intrigue, the demagogic appeal of the Reds...