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TIME, Nov. 1, appears at its worst in "Speak Low" when it reviews the books on foreign policy by Adlai Stevenson, George F. Kennan, Charles Burton Marshall and F. S. C. Northrop ... To say that these books are noteworthy "not because they are good, but because they are so bad" reveals a fantastic presumption that TIME knows more about foreign affairs and how this country should act in foreign affairs than these...
...When Kennan, Marshall, Northrop and Stevenson unite in recommending to our country less of arrogance and more of humility in dealing with our sister nations, it was inevitable that TIME . . . would disapprove, and refer to their books as "so bad." Losing TIME's approval, they may be consoled by the reflection that Solomon, Isaiah, Paul and Jesus gave similar counsel to an unheeding world...
Hardly ever before in peacetime has U.S. public interest in foreign policy run so broad and so deep. The fall publishing season has brought a batch of foreign-policy books, including four by authors with topnotch reputations: George F. Kennan, onetime (1947-50) director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff; Charles Burton Marshall, a top State Department planner under Dean Acheson; F.S.C. Northrop, Sterling professor of philosophy and law at Yale, noted for such provocative books as The Taming of the Nations, The Meeting of East and West; and Adlai Stevenson, titular head of the Democratic Party...
REALITIES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by George F. Kennan (Princeton; $2.75), disagrees with Stevenson on the question of humility: "There is no use blinking the fact that we are a great nation." But Kennan, too, is worried that the U.S. may become too agitated, may attempt to force its standard of morality on the rest of the world, may abuse its power and responsibility. His recommendation: "If we all sit quietly in our little boat and address ourselves to the process of navigation, I doubt that it will tip over...
George F. Kennan, former U.s. Ambassador to Russia, will address Radcliffe's 72nd commencement Exercises today as 237 seniors receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees...