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...seemed clear that the Senate would not confirm an ambassador to the Vatican this year. Less clear was Truman's motive in persisting with what seemed to be a hopeless and politically unprofitable fight...
Looking on, Americans felt a division of loyalties. The cry of freedom in Egypt, though exploited by hotheads and irresponsibles, had an ancient appeal; so did the hopeless, helpless stand of the Egyptian troops (see below). Yet the British, too, disliked their unhappy role. Their defense of the Suez Canal, their insistence on the sanctity of international contracts, and their efforts to preserve order-compromised though these might be by past errors-added up to a defense of American strategic interests too. So, though U.S. emotional reactions might be divided, the U.S. response could...
...Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...
...Washington sticks to the new policy, the Korean war, in its old hopeless, heartbreaking form, is over...
...British position in the whole area is hopeless. They are hated and distrusted almost everywhere. The old colonial relationship is finished, and no other power can replace Britain...