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Firm & Hopeful. Dulles, the first of the two to speak, was firm. No delegate could misunderstand his language when he said that the Geneva spirit could never be genuine or permanent if any nation continued "political offensives aimed at subverting free governments." Equally sharp was his charge that the veto power had been abused in the Security Council, and his recommendation that the proposed conference to review the U.N. Charter should reconsider the veto procedure on admission of new members. His label of "evil" for the record of the Chinese Communist regime showed that the U.S. had not stepped down...
...easy to misunderstand this new mood as narrow provincialism, selfishness or irresponsibility. But in fact it was a lot healthier than the global nail-biting that had preceded it. Chronic crisis and creeping frustration had produced some ugly effects in the U.S., the most conspicuous being the emotions roused pro and con a weightless opportunist named Joe McCarthy. Now McCarthy had receded to a mere smudge on the political landscape. His decline is part of the restoration of the U.S. picture to its proper perspective...
...slightly repetitious. On his opening show Paar observed: "I went to Phila delphia once on a Sunday, but it was closed." The same joke turned up again on Friday. Paar's idea of early morning games included complaints about the placement of cameras and pretending to misunderstand the off-screen signals of his technical staff. After the first go-around The Morning Show's co-Producer David Heilweil commented: "At least, Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion; Paar just creates...
...Scales. Wishing neither to underestimate the enemy nor to misunderstand him, newspapers printed only the truth they could be sure of about him. and were driven to guessing the dimensions of the bear by the length of his claw, and his health by the color of his coat. Yet putting together what is known indicates that the new Russian regime may keep its peoples from rising, but cannot satisfy their needs (see below); and the new China is having such internal upheaval that its leaders are hard put to combat...
...misunderstand me," Griswold told his audience. "I am opposed to legislative investigations. They clearly have a proper place in our government mental structure ... In my opinion, for what it is worth, some recent legislative investigations have been clear violations of due process...