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Israel. In an hour-long interview Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban sought to persuade Dulles that Premier David Ben-Gurion's dismissal of moderate Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett did not mean a return to the policy of answering Arab raids with reprisals-in-force. State, unconvinced, thinks that news reports quoting Ben-Gurion as having threatened Jordan with armed retaliation (in defiance of the U.N. armistice agreement) for border raids indicate the fiery Premier's thinking more clearly than Eban does...
...problem, it did not appear to be just a Democrat v. Republican issue. He was, he said, "the only fellow in the position to be a candidate for President" who was never "soft on Communism. No one can pin the soft-on-Communism label on me." Did Harriman mean to imply that he was less vulnerable than Adlai Stevenson or Estes Kefauver? "That smear, if it starts," he retorted heatedly to a National Press club luncheon, "is a lie and untrue. In no sense was [the statement] a disparagement of these two fine Democrats, Stevenson and Kefauver...
Down with the Barriers. If Socialism does not mean public ownership of industry and a more efficient economic system, what does it mean? To find the answer Gaitskell & Co. turned not to Karl Marx but to the 19th century British Socialist and aesthete William Morris, whose political beliefs rested on the statement that "Fellowship is life; lack of fellowship is death...
Japan's swing to the left is apt to mean more trouble for the U.S. With more than a third of the House in their hands, the Socialists can block any rearmament move, make trouble for U.S. occupation forces. Already, in the flush of victory, they banged the drums of anti-U.S. feeling. Some Japanese papers have been playing up Okinawa horror tales of G.I.s raping little girls and beating up farmers who resist land requisition, and of the U.S. taking farmers' little plots to build golf courses and expensive lawns for American occupiers. Socialists even suggest...
When the sirens blare in Cambridge this afternoon--three minutes of steady noise at 1:30 and three minutes of broken rising and falling noise at 2:30--it won't mean that Memorial Hall is on fire or that the Russians have come...