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McClelland said that the appointment represented recognition of Soc Rel's "real need for a high-level administration officer...
...liberty. He was given splendid receptions, pronounced "noble" by the poet laureate, and half a million Londoners yelled their heads off. He had the good sense and bad taste to wear his red shirt nearly everywhere. There were only two sour notes. Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order. Karl Marx, then organizing the First International in England, huffed: "A miserable spectacle of imbecility...
...considerable diplomatic triumph for Moscow and a major victory for Shastri. Without retreating on Kashmir, he negotiated an agreement with Ayub that called for 1) pulling back Indian and Pakistan armies to their prewar borders, 2) re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, and 3) holding more high-level meetings to discuss Indo-Pakistan misunderstandings. Shastri was ecstatic. "We shall fight as hard for peace," he vowed, "as we fought...
...Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler met in the Kremlin with Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny just before a high-level Soviet group headed by Aleksandr Shelepin, the party's No. 2 man, left for Hanoi. And in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with Hungarian officials, who had made it clear that they, too, wanted to join the lengthening procession of countries hopeful of mediating...
Meanwhile, high-level opinion in Washington is coming to center on the forecasts of Ambassador Lodge, who predicted last August that "once the Viet Cong and Hanoi have been convinced that their attempt at aggression is doomed to failure, they will stop... there's going to be a silence." Proponents of this view cite the revolutions in Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaya, which all fizzled out. Critics, however, observe two new and significant factors: the Vietnamese Communists have broad popular support as well as a twenty year head start...