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...question splits easily into problems of policy and execution. With regard to policy, afflicted undergraduates complain that a language requirement is useless, as it takes up time better spent in more exciting fields without the recompense of useful knowledge in return. This complaint is valid, insofar as it points to the absurdity of demanding a thorough knowledge of one foreign language, but that is not the requirement's purpose. All that the College demands is a minimal facility, enough to serve as the foundation on which, if they wish, students can later build a working knowledge. As a compromise between...
...commanding desire for a change," Hopper said, "is in order to make a fresh start in strategic thinking, to undo insofar as possible, the blunders committed at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam." He attributed these mistakes to "untimely export of American good will and superficial understanding of the nature of totalitarian regimes," and added that a "Democratic regime, no matter who the President, would be anchored in the blunders which lost Poland and China to the Free World...
...than half of the total vote of both parties--was enormous. He outpolled his Republican opponent, Leonard Schmitt, by more than 2 to 1. After the election it was said that even Democrats crossed party lines to vote for McCarthy. This is untrue. County-by-county breakdowns show that insofar as Democrats did vote in the Republican primary, it was for Schmitt. The only exceptions were three wards in the Polish section of South Milwaukee, where the "sellout of Poland" issue obscured even McCarthyism...
...home front, Malenkov reported glowing economic progress. Russian industrial output had increased 13 times since 1929 and doubled since 1940. Statistics in percentages is an old Soviet trick, but this time Malenkov gave specific production figures too, which-insofar as they are to be trusted-show that Russia is turning out only 40% of current U.S. production, but nevertheless making considerable strides. His 1952 estimates: iron, 25 million tons; steel, 35 million tons; coal, 300 million tons...
...FEPC: He would not endorse the current FEPC program because he objects to its "federal, compulsory" nature. But he gives small comfort to the advocates of segregation, promises "my unalterable support of fairness and equality among all types of American citizens. I believe that insofar as the Federal Government has any influence or any constitutional authority in this field, all of its means, all of its expenditures, all of its policies should adhere firmly and without any kind of equivocation to that principle...