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...October 1944, when the U.S. wanted to believe that peace could be permanently achieved by the mere setting up of a United Nations organization, Congresswoman Luce gave the problem a fresh appraisal. For the New York Herald Tribune Forum she traced the history-and weak points-of Utopian peace plans, from a Chinese try in 546 B.C. up to the League of Nations. "Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay...
...Clare Luce decided not to run for re-election to Congress in 1946, primarily because she did not want her imminent conversion to Roman Catholicism to be interpreted as a political act in heavily Catholic Connecticut. "I have turned eagerly back to my typewriter and books," she wrote. In 1949 she wrote the original story for the movie Come to the Stable. Last year she edited a series of essays by contemporary U.S. & British authors, Saints for Now (TIME, Sept...
Last month the Gallup poll reported that she ranked fourth in U.S. favor as the world's "most admired woman." (Front runners: Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, Mamie Eisenhower.) Like any woman in politics, Clare Luce has frequently presented the woman's viewpoint on public questions. But her main contribution to public discussion has been free of feminist special pleading. Deeply read in philosophy, she has brought a clear, practical mind and a gift for forceful expression to the central problems of world political strategy...
...Upper Reaches." News of her appointment brought statements of approval from her associates in Congress, and from the Italian press. From another woman, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, came a careful appraisal of the job Clare Luce has to face...
...Luce will have to overcome many prejudices and deal with very difficult problems. But she goes fortified by ten years' experience in American politics, an unusual knowledge of Italy, acquired during the war and since, and a large fund of shrewd ability leavened by charm. Moreover, she has the confidence of the Administration, a matter of great interest to the Italians, and as a pioneer in the upper reaches of diplomacy she is likely to rise to one of the biggest challenges ever offered to a woman...