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Something for Nothing. Though every new scrap of evidence indicts Stalin as the villain of Potsdam, a share of blame seems to fall on a U.S. that, bent on victory, was too single-minded to set realistic conditions for Japan's surrender. In hindsight, acceptance of such conditions might have ended the war, buttressed Asia against the newly strengthened Communists and relieved the U.S. of the onus of having dropped the first atomic bombs-which the Communists have used as a powerful anti-U.S. propaganda point...
...combined. In 1918, before the sun commenced to set on British seapower, the Royal Navy boasted 50 battleships. Last week, without ceremony, the navy sailed the last of Her Majesty's battleships, the 44,500 ton Vanguard, from Portsmouth up to the Clyde to be broken up for scrap...
...understand here it is where human progress is achieved. Those that march in the gutter, in the extremes of the right and the left, in the long run are always defeated." He also reminded his fellow Republicans that he was not yet to be relegated to history's scrap heap. Said he meaningfully, "I am still President of the United States for six months...
...from his heart attack and his ileitis surgery, President Eisenhower set a precedent in the 1956 election campaign by frankly discussing the state of his health. Last week the Democrats picked up "the health issue" and were playing hard politics with it among themselves. Jack Kennedy began the intramural scrap by declaring that the presidency demands "the strength and health and vigor of ... young men." Supporters of Lyndon Johnson leaped to the conclusion that Kennedy was making a not-so-subtle allusion to L.B.J.'s 1955 heart attack. "Citizens-for-Johnson" Director John B. Connally countercharged that Kennedy secretly...
...entered the war, a Navy officer called on Swirbul to tell him the plant would have to expand. Swirbul pulled out his blueprints. "We are," he said. The Navy man offered him help on getting steel priorities. Replied Swirbul: "I've got steel." He had bought up the scrap when Manhattan's Second Avenue El was razed...