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...read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership, and lawyers sought means to free him. The last of these efforts failed in 1955 when the Allied authorities ignored a plea that Dönitz' Nurnberg imprisonment be considered part of his court sentence and indicated that they would keep the Lion in Spandau to the last day of his legal term. Last week his penalty was almost paid. Announcing that Dönitz will be released...
Kennan, who as Mr. X writing in Foreign Affairs plotted the "containment policy" toward Russia after World War II, has no startling recommendations to add to his record. By training and instinct, he habitually mutes moral judgments to the point of understatement. With his main plea-for a more skilled and knowledgeable diplomatic setup-all will agree. But the reader will sadly conclude that the overall Kennan line is that the U.S. can do no better than to pursue what might be called a "Bad Neighbor Policy"; i.e., the U.S. should know an evil thing when it sees...
...Switch. The second ballot started, and Kennedy surged handily ahead of Kefauver. The Missouri delegation rushed away to caucus. Connecticut's Bailey grabbed Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings by the lapels and shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware that Kennedy had voted against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports, barked right back: "What about the farm vote?" There were angry stirrings in the Tennessee delegation, and Albert Gore grabbed a microphone to withdraw in favor of Kefauver...
...Kohler), and lists of merchants and contractors who do buy Kohler. The biggest meeting of U.S. plumbers in history cheered a unanimous "aye" to a resolution urging federal agencies to "refrain from granting contracts to Kohler, or purchase of its products." Washington of course will ignore the plea, continue to buy from the lowest bidder. But the U.A.W. won the sympathy of the men who install plumbing...
...toward obtaining a ban on arms of massive destruction and toward throwing a bridge between different countries." Dr. O. Frederick Nolde of Philadelphia, director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, told the meeting that "experimental tests of nuclear weapons should be discontinued, limited or controlled." His plea was solidly backed by Sir Kenneth Grubb of London, Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Dr. Martin Niemoeller, president of Germany's Evangelical Church of Hesse-Nassau. "As early as 1954," said Niemoeller, "the Pope pointed to the dangers to mankind in the genetic effects of radiation. The churches...