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...government. Ely insisted that the Binh Xuyen could not be smashed without civil war. "Your attitude is helping them to survive when I could crush them," replied Ngo Dinh Diem. U.S. Presidential Envoy J. Lawton Collins, a former U.S. Army chief of staff in mufti, echoed Ely's plea for conciliation. "Nothing can be done with the Binh Xuyen controlling the police," replied Diem. "Have you ever seen a Premier who did not control his own police?" The French, who have never been keen for Diem and have had long and profitable relationships with his enemies, spread the word...
...revelations fill me with a sense of shame . . . that my country has negotiated its foreign policy from the stand point of spiritual apostasy and moral weakness rather than of strength . . . The Eisenhower-Dulles regime marks the wholesome arrest of a drift in foreign relations, but something more than a plea for changeless principle is needed. Sin and redemption are still primary reference points for national survival...
...Bets Down. After four days and long nights of debate, Faure laid in his final plea. His allies had helped all that they could. To ease the way, German President Theodor Heuss had signed the Paris accords, completing German action except for the formality of depositing the instrument of ratification. Secretary of State Dulles had sent a carefully worded message pledging the U.S. to "closest cooperation" with the new Western European Union. Faure played his trump...
...effort. There were two related avenues for a strong U.S. approach: the high principles of self-determination for even the smallest state, and the heavy pressure of such practical measures as Russia's stake in the future of West Germany. Instead, Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them...
From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...