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...then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President (1950-51), director of Mutual Security (1951-53), early predicted the onrush of Russian and Chinese imperialism...
Unwanted Volunteers. Was Nasser still worried that next time Moscow might send him unwanted "Moslem volunteers," Communist troops he would have a hard time getting rid of? The onrush of events had momentarily been stalled, but agitation everywhere continued, and nothing had been solved. Jordan was one sign of the danger. Should the British go home, leave Hussein to be ousted by Nasserites? In such a case Israel, its existence threatened as never before, might even take military action. British troops were thus holding the peace while accused of spreading war. Rather than accept a third Arab-Israeli war with...
...Humanities in the Age of Science." Three of the University's foremost humanists, Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, exposed the dangers lurking in the recent onrush of the sciences...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted...
...Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal position in Suez, but it has privately counseled Israel to move gradually and to establish a pattern of shipping Israeli goods in foreign bottoms through the canal before sending a ship with an Israeli flag...