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...declared war on Communist aggression in Korea-actively preferred a man he knew to be a Communist is an. action both foolish and unjust. Whatever Mr. Truman's faults, few will deny he was a patriotic American with the best interests of his country at heart. For many Englishmen, such as I, who so tremendously admired General Eisenhower, President Eisenhower is a disappointment...
...Mary's-and England's-tragedy, concludes Biographer Prescott, that no such simple graciousness was workable. The England she had imagined in her semi-exile in no way resembled the England she came to rule. What Mary called the "new" religion was already "old" to many Englishmen. The Protestant party was not, as she imagined, composed of a few erring men who had "been misled, or frightened into the new ways." It was a powerful, well-rooted faction made up partly of ardently religious men, partly of landlords who dreaded that Mary would give back to the Church...
...Long Way Home. In Dunkirk, France, after a night's drinking. Englishmen Frank Lee and Eric Pape finally woke up, discovered that they had taken the wrong train, crossed the English Channel on a ferry instead of commuting home to their London suburb...
...only educated the new masses but provided the steppingstones toward social and intellectual advancement for their sons & daughters. A big percentage of today's teachers are Jewish; many of them studied under second or third generation Irishmen who had gone to school in turn under the sons of Englishmen or Germans. Negro teachers are increasing in New York; in another generation, Puerto Ricans will take their place in the schools...
...remind a foreign scholar of his homeland--a sort of "home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...