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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expert Solace. Dulles himself is aware as rarely before that it is almost impossible for a U.S. Secretary of State, by the power of his position and the difficulty of pleasing everybody, to be popular. Beyond that, he is disturbed by the personal criticism and by the fact that some of his decisions have turned out worse than others, but he is not disturbed by the central attack against his evaluation of Communism. He is convinced that meaningless summit parleys tend to produce a letdown in the free world's sense of urgency. He is convinced that his policy...
...offered by the U.S.S.R. in 1956. But Indonesia has accepted 4,500 Russian jeeps (purchased with a $6,000,000 credit), and near Djokjakarta 40 East German technicians, backed up by a $13 million East German credit, are rebuilding a war-damaged sugar mill. Neither deal has proved very popular. Style-conscious Indonesians find the rough-finish GAZ jeeps unimpressive, and the sugar-mill project is already two years behind schedule. "What those so-called technicians are doing I don't know," complains one annoyed Indonesian official. But, angered by U.S. hesitation to meet its request for arms...
...legal government of the Cameroons is concerned, the UPC is a Communist-front party that aims to establish by force a Marxist "popular republic" in the Cameroons. Most of its leaders, including Um Nyobe and Félix Moumié, have been indoctrinated in Communist countries. I have a copy of a letter written some years ago by Moumié to Molotov (when he was Foreign Minister), in which Moumié admits that he is a Communist. Like all Communist-front parties, the UPC poses as a truly democratic party fighting "colonial suppression," but in fact its methods are totalitarian...
...most popular man along Madison Avenue last week was a tough-talking executive named Edward T. Ragsdale, general manager of General Motors' Buick Motor Division. From morn till night, he was discussed, watched, wooed with every honeyed promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet...
...while the others mind the store is bad for morale. Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just to get on the bandwagon. And many rightly fear that their bright young men will be lured away by corporate talent scouts lurking in the university halls...