Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the paroxysms of the present, some words he spoke 14 years ago in Rutland, Vt. have particular relevance. "We merely want to live in peace with all the world," said Ike. "To trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for the guns and planes and tanks and ships...
...possible." Moreover, said Rogers, any settlement that required the U.S. to stay on in Viet Nam permanently-like that in Korea-would be "not desirable." The conditions for peace that Rogers outlined were substantially unchanged from those of the Johnson Administration. However, he acknowledged that Saigon's present attitude would be a "problem" in holding genuinely free elections...
Less formal discussions, however, have been held. Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon held three secret meetings with Hussein between Sept. 25 and 29 in London. Eban was present at one of these sessions. At one point in this period, Allon also met fruitlessly with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad. It is likely that Eban and Hussein held more private discussions in London in October and January...
...Political parties got short shrift: they "have hardly made a positive contribution; their existence is largely parasitical." He was harsh on Japan's role in the world. "Postwar Japan is not likely to assume political leadership in Asia, let alone of the world. Racially, ideologically and militarily, the present-day Japan is simply not equal to so grandiose a task." True or not, it was hardly the thing for an ambassador...
Seferiades explained in last week's statement that "for some months I have felt within me and around me that more and more it is becoming imperative for me to speak out on our present situation. It is almost two years since a regime was imposed upon us utterly contrary to the ideals for which our world-and so magnificently our people-fought in the last world war. It is a state of enforced torpor in which all the intellectual values that we have succeeded, with toil and effort, in keeping alive are being submerged in a swamp...