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That the situation was disappointing, Eisenhower was prompt to admit. "There is always," he explained, "the grey zone of human affairs." The picture was not all grey. In Eisenhower's judgment-and in the initial calculations of the Three Wise Men-ithere was enough on hand or within reach to put together a NATO army of 20 fully equipped divisions by next year. Washington convinced itself that such an army in being by 1952 was preferable to 60 on paper now, and half ready by 1954. Besides, the development of tactical atomic weapons might make a 20-division army...
Friends and admirers of the flamboyant MacArthur have been prompt--even eager--to point out minor factual inaccuracies in the present work, and thus to infer that the whole book is a shoddy job. Tbis will just not do; there is too much well-documented and relevant material that could only be refuted by a detailed counter-analysis of the general's motives and actions...
While one may not agree with the committee's preliminary statement that "all free society is engaged in mortal struggle with Soviet communism," the principles behind UMT are sound and Congress should take prompt affirmative action. The final details of the plan have not as yet been worked out, but when they are Congress should take care that 18-year olds who wish to go on to college do not lose one or two academic years...
...Manhattan, for his 92nd birthday, Philosopher John Dewey took a philosophic attitude toward Government morals. Said he: "Graft has always been pretty closely connected with political activities. But agencies of publicity are probably more powerful now in checking corruption in Government than in previous periods . . . Exposure is more prompt and more specific than in the past...
...wolf gazed hungrily at the shapely maiden. Then he drooled and howled. But no moviegoer ever saw that scene from MGM's cartoon, Red Hot Riding Hood. Hollywood's censor, the Breen office, which hardly blinks at a human wolf on the screen, turned a prompt thumbs-down on the cartoon version. Last week Producer Walter Lantz sounded off on some other rules of cartoon censorship...