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Manion, Chairman of "For America," preceded socialist Norman Thomas, six time presidential candidate, on the program. He postulated that the only excuse for the U.N. was as a "transmission belt to World Government," but that this real issue of the desirability of world government should be approached with "forthright admission and free discussion...
...Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take to the hills...
...British Novelist and Poet Thomas Love Peacock. Five years later, while still a graduate student at Columbia, Mark followed with a study of American Naturalist Henry Thoreau. Close friends as well as brothers, Carl and Mark then proceeded to found a family tradition of literary excellence based on incisive, forthright thinking and sturdy independence. Carl, a big, vigorous man who was devoted to football until he stumbled on the works of Christopher Marlowe, concentrated on literary criticism and history. His thoughtful, conscientious works include The Great Rehearsal, a vivid narrative of the Philadelphia convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution...
Charles Erwin Wilson, 66, Secretary of Defense, is the Cabinet officer whose quips and forthright answers have earned the most smiles, howls and congressional yowls. Wilson probably will be the first in the Cabinet to retire, possibly this summer or fall. But he will go not because of carps or criticism against him, but because of age and a desire to rest. As a military man, Ike understands Wilson's problem of holding a lid on the highly competitive services, and can see that he is doing it with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision...
...women who may not be afraid of the accusation of Communism do have a certain natural desire to keep their jobs. They have seen some of their colleagues sent to Mozambique or out of the Foreign Service simply for criticizing American foreign policy, particularly a brand new, bold, forthright, massive policy. Apparently it is perfectly acceptable to write what you think if you are stationed in Australia, but not if you are in Formosa, Beirut, or Belgrade...