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"The principle of neutrality," said Dulles, "pretends that a nation can best gain safety for itself by being indifferent to the fate of others. This has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. The free world today is stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Correcting the Slip | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

McKeldin saw some merit in the local brewers' objection to the high Canadian tariffs on U.S. beer, but he refused to ban Carling's in retaliation. "I frown upon restrictive tariffs maintained by this country and others," said Free Trader McKeldin. "However, American leadership toward the elimination of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Free Beer | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Though CAAdministrator Lee pleaded -and with reason-that he was hampered by a shortsighted appropriation policy in Congress, many airmen feel that he did not fight hard enough for more funds. Recently, stirred by the criticism, the CAA proposed its own compromise plan for a $916 million expenditure over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Needed: Better Highways in the Sky | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

More than 6,000 readers wrote to thank Réaltiés a year ago when it ran an analysis of the nation's economic and political stagnation called "Where Is France Heading?" Its article, "Why Do Five Million Frenchmen Vote Communist?" (TIME, June 30, 1952), reprinted throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success Without Strings | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

His keen observations, whether of animal or plant, carry mystical overtones. He would insist with Thoreau that "this curious world which we inhabit ... is more to be admired and enjoyed than it is to be used." Indeed, he takes up the cudgels against man's shortsighted ambition to "control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curious World | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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