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...hrer, I congratulate you," said Hitler's dwarfish Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who had just ordered champagne. "Roosevelt is dead! It is written in the stars that the second half of April will be the turning point...
...came the generosity and vision of the U.S., through the Marshall Plan; that grand recovery scheme, conceived under the aegis of then Secretary of State George C. Marshall, gave Western Europe more than $13 billion to build a new economic foundation. From the East came the threat represented by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet despot whose Red Army divided the Continent in half, and who spurred movement toward greater unity in the West through his cold war policies. Says Andre de Staercke, a former Belgian diplomat: "We should build a statue to Stalin in every public square in Europe, because...
Curiously, today's protesters sometimes seem more reminiscent of the '50s than the '60s; they tend to have short hair and occasionally wear ties; they are less radical and more disciplined than their predecessors. While few in number, they may be this generation's pioneers of social conscience. Notes Joseph Bristol, a 19- year-old Yale sophomore, one of six students arrested for bursting into a CIA interview: "It seems to be the birth of a movement. The obliviousness of college students is starting...
...fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop, who saw in them the lineaments of a progressive new China, ready to enter the American Century...
...arguments about stock divestiture are the easier to follow. For most advocates, the issue is primarily moral. Says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "People who own stock in companies that do business in South Africa become indirect participants in the repression...