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Chester Bowles last night sharply attacked the implicit "isolationism" of United States foreign policy, and said that unless the United States responds to the great new world crisis the nation will be in grave danger...
Switches & Splits. The confessions of truckling cowardice that were implicit in the new Khrushchev-Molotov-Bulganin line might do for the inner Kremlin gang. But it was not so easy for Communist leaders outside Russia to explain their own participation in the great deceit. The debunking of Stalin hit world Communists with a deeper shock than anything since Stalin's 1939 pact with Hitler. In what may be the first of many satellite reverberations, the boss of Hungary's Communist Party has admitted that his regime sent five top Reds wrongly to death in 1949 (see below...
...registration would sacrifice principle. To Gandhi, this trust in Smuts' word was the essence of Satyagraha, for "the Satyagrahi bids good-bye to fear," he wrote. "Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times, the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him for the twenty-first time, for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed...
Demolishing a Window. Comic or sober, Author Powers cannot avoid that slight tinge of spiritual arrogance that is implicit in judging one's co-religionists-Catholic, Protestant or Jew-rather more severely than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before...
Soviet Dilemma. Before long Humphrey, Sparkman and Fulbright began to bear down on the new threat implicit in the changing Soviet policies. If they expected Dulles to be on the defensive, they were surprised...