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...main differences between the Democratic and Republican attitudes toward foreign policy? "One [difference] is that the Republicans advocate a global, balanced policy which will treat the peoples of the Far East, Middle East and Africa as equal and first-class members of the free world and not as second-class expendables, which is the Administration policy. The second difference is that we will abandon the policy of containment and will actively develop hope and resistance spirit within the captive peoples, which in my opinion is the only alternative to a general war . . . We will assume a psychological offensive...
...kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...
...earnest support of a carefully worked-out organization, to interest and bring to the polls millions of voters who have thought little about the vital nature of this political campaign . . . I promise you an all-out fighting campaign . . ." Independent voters do not like to be typed as second-class citizens, even once in four years...
...Lamont waves the white flag, it will be another victory for the Commuters in the long-range struggle to rid themselves of a second-class student standing. Their demands are fair; the ratio of books they propose to take out is in ratio with their number. Since resident students have informally approved the Commuters' demands, the last obstruction, short of Lamont officialdom, has been razed...
...Mexico City, Prío & family put up at a second-class hotel. Batista's charge that the government planned a coup, he said, was a "lie." "In Cuba," he added, "no dictator has ever died in power, and the Cuban people will throw Batista out sooner or later." Denying the charges that he had enriched himself in office, Prío said that he had money enough to keep his family for a month or two, and after that "if necessary I can always sell my properties in Cuba. Everybody knows I have three estates-La Chata...