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...great American soldier disclosed political greatness this week and rediscovered courage as a policy for the nation. Out of his own wide experience with the fateful issues of the 20th century, Dwight D. Eisenhower phrased a definition of the peril besetting the U.S. and proposed a moral basis for meeting that peril. It was a definition so compelling that it set old political issues in a new frame. And it displayed, as nothing Ike has said before, his credentials as a candidate for President...
Dulles: I think first we have got to be clear that we cannot carry on with the old policies that got us into this mortal peril. The Democratic platform says America must not deviate from these policies. I say, unless we deviate from those policies, we are lost . . . The first thing I would do would be to shift from a purely defensive policy to a psychological offensive, a liberation policy, which will try to give hope and a resistance mood within the Soviet empire...
...Foreign policy is and must be a major issue in the campaign . . . The trend of present foreign policies is to put our nation in the greatest peril it has ever been in in the entire course of our national history. At the end of the second World War, Russia was a relatively weak and terribly devastated country. The United States had unprecedented power and prestige in the world. Since then, the balance of power has been steadily moving against...
...utility of conceptions like God and the Devil. Unlike the orthodox followers of Sigmund Freud, who attribute most of mankind's mental troubles to the sexual conflicts of infancy, Jung maintains that the religious instinct is as strong as the sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally assigned to the mystic, the theologian and the philosopher, he maintains stoutly that he is a scientist. His methods, in his own view, are as empirical as those of Albert Einstein...
Britain is on the brink of bankruptcy, but the British people, who have lived so long in peril that they have become inured to crisis, seem the last to realize it. For one thing, the crisis in its present dimensions affects the nation as such, rather than the people as individuals; only later will they feel the result of inequalities in a worldwide exchange of goods far from the British hearth. Last week, in a speech that rang with the fervor of olden days, Winston Churchill did his best to shake the British out of their complacency. The crisis...