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Last week Washington, which did not know how to react to events in Europe, was busily reacting to events in the East. Most of what was said and done was within the limits of the old containment'policy, but at least it was containment with a firmer tone. And here and there were flashes of another, newer kind of thinking...
...Capitol Hill, the President's statement got quick confirmation. The first to react was California's Senator William Knowland, who rose and asked a sharp question: "Are the hundreds of American prisoners killed in cold blood with their hands tied behind their backs to become the forgotten men, while the bloodstained hands of the Communist murderer are clasped in fraternal greeting by our allies in the United Nations Building in New York?" Then he took his position: "On the day that Communist China is voted into membership into the United Nations, I shall resign my majority leadership...
...would the U.S. react if Communist China were admitted to the United Nations? For that question last week, there came a clear, bipartisan answer. Across the center aisle of the U.S. Senate, Republican Leader William Knowland and Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson agreed that the people of the U.S. do not want Communist China in the U.N., and do not want a U.N. that includes Communist China...
...them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like the jealous India Firster he basically is. Last week Nehru was actively helping Red China get Viet Nam for Ho Chi Minh, but he was also concerned that the Communists might edge too close to India. So Nehru hoped for Chinese assurances that they would not support the Communists...
...years. Two of the girls work as secretaries in a U.S. Government agency which, as a matter of policy, seems to regard most Italians as strictly colonial inferiors. When Actress Peters starts to run around with Actor Brazzi, who plays a lowly Italian translator, her boss and his wife react as if she were bound on miscegenation in the Deep South. But the film is pretty, even if peopled by dunces...