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Crown Prince Asfa Wassan would doubtless dip his nose an inch or two lower in the dirt on his next meeting with father. Haile Selassie made it scornfully clear that he considered Asfa Wassan only a dupe of others, "acting under coercion." The seeds of unrest among the educated minority of Ethiopians were still there and would grow. But it would take a stronger man than Asfa Wassan to snatch power from the little Lion of Judah...
...except that it was deemed of interest to NROTC students and the general public. (Commander A. E. Brown, the unit's executive officer, however, had drawn a round of hisses when he introduced the film, saying, "the Navy's purpose in presenting this movie is to show how Communists dupe students...
...something, than ten worrying about re-election. We may lose this election, but then again, we may surprise them." Meyer's adversaries have called him irreligious (he is a former deacon of a Dutch Reform Church, and has made a concerted study of all the major religions) and a dupe of the Reds (he warned against the consequences of close alliance with the Soviet Union during the Second World War), but they have been forced to shy away from attacking his record...
...Presidential ignorance of a specific plane flight would not have been beyond belief. But no charge by the political opposition piques Press Secretary Jim Hagerty more than the charge that Ike is not on top of his job. Furthermore, Communist propaganda likes to say that Eisenhower is the innocent dupe of Pentagon "war planners." Ike reversed himself, aggressively shouldered all the blame for the U-2 May Day flight. By this time critics were saying that the U.S. should stick to one side or the other, moralists were saying that the U.S. should not lie, and sophisticates in the espionage...
...with Mboya, who does not trust Blundell's liberalism and prefers to operate against the more extreme European wing led by Group Captain Llewellyn Briggs. With the ultras, Mboya believes, Africans at least know where they stand. White extremists have already begun denouncing Blundell back home as a dupe. Now, far from rewarding him for his reasonableness. Macleod confronted him with a plan that seemed destined only to stiffen his white critics further. For big Michael Blundell, the bus seemed already moving too fast...