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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hopalong Hats. A white-faced state policeman, who had the job of cataloguing its contents, wept when he came to one item: two Hopalong Cassidy hats. A nationwide alarm went out; police set up roadblocks across half a dozen states. But William Cook and his .32 vanished. Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.1,600 miles from Tulsaa deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends...
Here are some specific examples of how the passive U.S. attitude paralyzes policy: Item: The Berlin airlift was a heaven-sent situation of strength. The U.S. accepted the gratitude and enthusiasm of the Germans, made no real effort to develop these into permanent assets. The airlift has become in German minds just a sentimental folk memory, like Santa Claus. Everybody is in favor of Santa Claus, but how many divisions can he raise? Item: Marshall Plan aid to France (as to other countries) created a magnificent situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American...
...Item: Greatest situation of strength of all is in the Anglo-American alliance. This endures but it does not advance. At the moment, it is beset by suspicion and recriminations on both sides of the Atlantic. The British hang back because they cannot see just what, if anything, the Americans are trying...
...Item: Spain is anti-Communist and has the largest army (372,000) in Western Europe. It guards the Mediterranean and is a bridge to Africa. The passivists ignore Spain because it creates no crisis. If Spain had a Communist revolution, the country would suddenly seem all important to Washington. But as an asset? No interest...
...Item : Iran stands between the Russians and the Middle East oil they would like to have and which Western Europe must have to live. The passivists look sadly at Iran's internal weak ness and shake their heads. That is not the only way for an American to look at Iran. Last month a TIME correspondent talked to U.S. engineers in Iran. Some spoke in glowing terms of a future in which Iran could support 50 million people and be a breadbasket for the whole Middle East. One said, "Damn, I wish I were 35 instead of 55. Then...