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...Philippines' Liberal Party gathered one day last week to nominate a presidential candidate. For the first time in the party's brief postwar history, it had a choice to make. The alternatives: to renominate powerful and clever President Elpidio Quirino for a second term, or shuck him and his corruption-tainted regime and nominate peppery Carlos Romulo, ex-Foreign Secretary, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly...
...would be futile to ask a divinity-minded Graduate Secretary to shuck his religious views while administering his Brooks House duties. Yet his slightest attempt to propagate religion in the organization would bear out the fears of those who doubted the wisdom of his appointment. Even if the divinity student now under consideration could always muffle his natural inclination to extend religion in PBH's activities, the precident of a sectarian Secretary would be established. And eventually, some future zealot would act to end the fine tradition of service without reference to any religious belief. The Graduate Secretary should continue...
...McCarthy was solely interested in developing the Voice he would not have suggested this. For if any part of our foreign policy needs to shuck the attitude that America Equals Perfection, it is psychological warfare. Aimed as it is at people who hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas...
...Official Returns. Consternation seized green Miraflores Palace, the seat of the government. Junta Boss Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez used the confusion to shuck off the other two members of the junta, Colonel Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Minister of Interior, and Germán Suarez Flamerich, the mousy professor whom the colonels had propped up as President. After two days, Pérez Jiménez got the signed support of Chief of Staff Felix Moreno, and went on the air to declare himself President. He announced baldly that "correct" election returns gave the government...
When Austin Myers came to Texas from the Republican outer world in 1900, he refused to shuck his political convictions just because he found himself surrounded by infidels. Stubbornly, year after year, he voted the G.O.P. ticket. But last week, at the age of 100, he enrolled as a Democrat. "I expect to live here the rest of my life," he said, "and I'm tired of being on the losing side...