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...unrepentant, ready to strike again. For the U.S., public morality abroad seemed to be easier than at home. It had been a summer of suspicion and scandal. The charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national chairmen of the nation's major parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last decade, the U.S. could boast of an enormous stride forward toward racial tolerance and understanding. Yet in Illinois last week, a grand...
...Middle East: Jerusalem's scheming Grand Mufti and the Communists. For some time the Reds and the Muftimen have been working together, each side thinking it could use the other's propaganda talents. The Mufti's influence was generally considered stronger (most Arabs deeply distrust Communism because of its atheistic teachings). But recently the Communists have scared the Mufti-and startled Western observers-with a surprising show of strength...
...Prevent Fumbles. The new (and deserved) recognition of Acheson's "brilliance" would not end distrust of U.S. foreign policy in the nation or the Congress. Last week Senator Knowland had little trouble rounding up 56 Senators (including 17 Democrats) who signed a letter to Truman declaring their fixed opposition to recognition or a U.N. seat for Red China. In a pointed warning, they declared that they would consider any move of Japan's to recognize or to negotiate a trade agreement with Red China "adverse to the best interests of the people of both Japan...
...atomization of society has its good side: social mobility. Many a professional soldier has lost his Prussianized kinks after working in the Ruhr mines, many a previous failure has proved himself in the tough scramble of postwar life. Healthy distrust of outworn German codes is surging. Fanaticism for the state is finished. On this point, the Germans are explicit: "Wir sind nicht noch einmal die Dummen" (We're not going to be played for suckers again...
...this country since Pearl Harbor. I would like to keep it that way. I know a great many Republicans who want to keep it that way too. Now is the time to put a stop to the sordid efforts to make political gains by stirring up fear and distrust...