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...American language the word "politician" calls forth contempt and distrust, and such connotations grew, in 1951, with disclosures of corruption and shoddy politics in high places of the U.S. This growing contempt and distrust came at an unfortunate time; in 1951, many of the gravest problems facing the U.S. were political. Churchill, without a trace of shame, calls himself a politician. He means that by aptitude, training and choice, his business in life is to deal with problems of man and state, and state and state...
Behind the charges lay a complex story of bureaucratic intrigue and counter-intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made...
...weak in fact, that we must cower before the verbal brandishments of others, the responsibility for such weakness should be a matter of the gravest public concern...
...closed Senate Committee hearings, he broadly supported his proposals, added that one of the gravest U.S. mistakes was permitting Russia...
Early reports put the death toll at 1,000 to 2,000, but by week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...