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Looking forward, the world could expect its politics to turn around the interplay of Russian expansionism v. the U.S. policy of "patience and firmness...
...Iraq. Its 65,000 Armenians identify themselves with Armenians in Turkey and in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Precept and propaganda had already aroused a strong separatist urge among Iran's Armenians. At any moment blood might call to blood across the boundaries. In skilled Soviet hands, this interplay of nationalisms would be a potent instrument of policy. Recently, in Azerbaijan, a pro-Russian Democratic Kurdish Party significantly burgeoned into being...
...contrast was instructive. When the Big Powers concerned themselves solely with the structure and interplay of world power, agreement was always possible. When they concerned themselves with the morals of power, agreement seemed easy in the preliminary stage of words (i.e., the Crimea declaration on Poland; some of the charter amendments approved last week). But when they got down to cases on such issues, the deep differences between the Soviet Union and its principal allies came nakedly to the fore, and agreement was difficult if not impossible...
...swift interplay of forces began when the plane bringing Henry Wallace back from Chungking touched the runway at Fairbanks, Alaska. Roly-poly Samuel Rosenman, the President's speechwriter and confidant, who is now filling much of Harry Hopkins' old role, was already burning the long-distance wires. He wanted, he said, to see Henry first. But Henry Wallace refused to say anything until he had talked to Franklin Roosevelt...
...faculty admittedly can be most effective when it reaches its students in small groups where there can be an interplay of ideas, where the undergraduate can actively participate in something more than the examination. But such a-large-scale seminar system is impractical in a college where the enrollment and the curriculum require large courses. Not even Harvard could afford or find the professors necessary for such individual instruction, and where instructors are of the calibre of the average Harvard section man, conferences per se can never succeed. A greater emphasis on the importance and quality of section work...