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...League figured a little more definitely in the East-West game, played San Francisco on December 30. John Clayton and Bob McCraney (Dartmouth), Poland Donan and Jack Davison (Princeton), and Bernio Lemonick (Penn) all are on the East squad...
...perhaps be charged that the" remarks I ... make are not wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While we are making these sacrifices to defend our national integrity, we are [contributing] very particularly to the security of the entire hemisphere...
...fifth anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter, the world stands no nearer to permanent peace than it did in 1945. Peace treaties are still unsigned, the Cold War is still raging, and the East-West cleavage in the world is much more clearly defined. China has gone Communist, Germany appears to be permanently divided, and we have even had a little "hot" war in the Pacific. But the fact that the United Nations is still meeting at all, and that conference tables still exist after five years of vetoes, boycotts, slanders, and unilateral action, can be taken...
...outside, the Liberté looked much the same as the Europa did in 1930, when she held the blue ribbon for the fastest (4 days 17 hrs. 6 min.) east-west transatlantic crossing. The climax to her German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought...
...Aggression." The Communist march on South Korea, said the President, marked a new era in East-West relations. "This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt," he said in a dry, controlled voice, "that the international communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations ... It was an act of raw aggression ... I repeat: It was an act of raw aggression...