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...James review the dress of military leaders from bedraggled American colonists to pajamaed Viet Cong. With the exception of the drably turned-out forces on both sides of the Korean War, the gaudier the officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained by the Sukhomlinov rule to prevail over the strutting dandy Adolf Hitler. Japan's high command surrendered in aiguillettes and swords; General Douglas MacArthur accepted in tieless khaki. The authors point out that shortly before the 1968 Tet offensive. American fashion experts had designated fastidiously uniformed General William Westmoreland as one of the best-dressed...
...right of the public to knowledge about its government. Clinton Rossiter, a leading historian of the presidency, counted executive secrecy in diplomacy an essential prerogative of a President. Columnist Walter Lippmann, in his classic The Public Philosophy, observed that only within an ideal society, where laws of rational order prevail, is there "sure and sufficient ground for the freedom to speak and to publish." Even James Russell Wiggins, former editor of the Washington Post and an articulate spokesman for press freedom, takes no unlimited view of "the right to know." While decrying the proliferation of governmental secrecy, he writes...
...Defense Minister has said. "The Arabs have demanded total withdrawal, and this we are not willing to accept. So let us have an arrangement that would give us something less than total peace and something less than total withdrawal." It sounds reasonable enough, but reason does not often prevail in the Middle East...
...devices for such peaceful purposes as excavating deep-sea harbors, unlocking mineral and gas deposits and digging a new Panama Canal. Seaborg has championed peaceful uses of the atom for more than two decades, but he is going to need all of his conciliatory skills if he is to prevail without dividing the scientific community still further. The new activists in the A.A.A.S. will severely test his celebrated sangfroid...
...trip through the white towns and black "homelands" of the Republic of South Africa. After a 16-day, 3,000-mile journey in the apartheid state, the head of the Anglican Communion was scarcely optimistic. "It would be premature to say that I believe that wrong was going to prevail," said the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey in Johannesburg last week. But he saw only two alternatives: "Either violent revolution or a real change in which Christian people can play a part...