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...couple more diplomatic blunders like the ones we made this past month, and it will be Iron Curtain for US as a world power. We're already not treated as one. After Ike's recent successes, I begin to agree that the best course for him to take is the golf course, after all. For the fondest hope this Administration can cherish is that history will judge it by its score rather than on its record...
Note of Anger. One reason that the Communists went to such efforts to disrupt his visit to Japan, Ike felt, was that his good-will missions to Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America had been so successful. "A major aim of international Communism is to drive a wedge between Japan and the U.S." Above all, noted the President in a rare flight of anger, the free world must not let itself be "bluffed, cajoled, blinded or frightened. We cannot win out against the Communist purpose to dominate the world by being timid, passive or apologetic when...
...view of the brief span in office left to him, Ike had decided he would probably not make any more trips abroad as President. But if circumstances changed, he would not hesitate to undertake another journey to strengthen the free world's bonds of friendship. "No consideration of personal fatigue or inconvenience, no threat or argument would deter me from once again setting out on a course that has meant much for our country, for her friends, and for the cause of freedom -and peace with justice in the world...
...downtown Tokyo. With him MacArthur carried the U.S. ratification papers, which, in a kind of "hold for release" technique unprecedented in diplomatic history, had been shipped to Japan fortnight ago complete with the signatures of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter. Three hours earlier, at a signal from Ike, MacArthur had inserted into the papers the date of Senate ratification. While 300 students demonstrated before the Foreign Office building three miles away in downtown Tokyo, MacArthur and Fujiyama exchanged documents, and the treaty at last went into force. Said one American: "Has an international document ever been ratified...
...best count. The White House has no complete list of Ike's degrees, but notes the following: Queen's University, Belfast ('45); Louvain ('45); Oxford ('45); Toronto ('46); Boston University ('46); Richmond ('46); Texas A&M ('46); Gettysburg ('46); Harvard ('46); Norwich ('46); Edinburgh ('46); Cambridge ('46); Lafayette ('46); Princeton ('47); Columbia ('47); Pennsylvania ('47); West Virginia ('47); Rutgers ('48); Williams ('48); Yale ('48); Jewish Theological Seminary ('48); State University of N.Y. ('48); Santo Domingo...