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...Embassy in Paris, which implied a tacit sponsorship. Moreover, high policymakers of the State Department were saying privately last week that the Communists are on firm notice that the U.S. is prepared to seize the weapons of its choice if war breaks out again. Said one Washington planner: "If they can read, they know what we mean...
...European allies wanted and formally requested an American for Ike's job. The choice fell between two men: Ridgway, and General Alfred Gruenther, No. 2 man in SHAPE under Ike and perhaps the smartest planner in a U.S. military uniform. A superb administrator, a crack bridge player, Gruenther knew NATO's problems and NATO's leaders, who privately hoped he would get the job. But the leaders were happy to accept Ridgway. Gruenther himself had once said he was too introverted for so extroversive a job as supreme commander. In his brilliant 33-year Army career...
Holford, who is professor of Town Planning at University College in London, is England's leading city planner. He played a large part in the reconstruction of London after the last war. Formerly technical advisor to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, he has designed a great number of private homes and industrial buildings...
...became governor of Illinois in 1949, he inherited a rich family tradition of public service. His ancestral hero is great-grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
...main trouble with U.S. foreign policy in the last half century is that it has too seldom been guided by self-interest, too often by "impractical idealism." So concludes the State Department's George F. ("Mr. X") Kennan, who left his job as State's top policy-planner last year for a sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Ever since the U.S. blundered into global responsibilities in the Spanish-American War, says Kennan, its tendency has been to live in a dreamy haze, preaching moral principles but neglecting to keep the military strength to make...