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...such unrevolutionary slogans, the factory workers who make up 38% of the Communist Party's rolls are showing some loss of political ardor. The Communist Party is offering television sets and typewriters as prizes for comrades who sign up the most recruits. The party merchandizers also give away six-month subscriptions to the Red newspaper. L'Unità,* at the end of the free-trial period, a copy of L'Unità arrives with an unsolicited gift-a party card made out to the head of the family. But the party's drive for new members...
...Soviet postwar relations have gone through cycles of freeze and mild thaw-but the Kennedy Administration has experienced mainly cold weather. When Kennedy first took office, he naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist crisis stirring while his Administration got its house in order...
Naive Request. In foreign affairs, understanding of the difficulties came more slowly to the President. At the outset, Kennedy naively conveyed a request for a six-month moratorium on Communist troublemaking while the new Administration got its house in order. In response, Communist guerrillas began gobbling even more hungrily at faraway Laos. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to the White House to sound out the new President. In the Rose Garden, Kennedy sternly warned Gromyko of the danger of pushing the U.S. too far in a situation where its prestige was at stake. Gromyko listened-and the guerrillas kept...
...inspired by high and noble ends. They fight merely because something angers them in each other's smells. What is true of dogs in the street equally true of nations in the present war." Although Russell persisted in voicing his un-Wilsonian sentiments until he ultimately incurred a six-month jail sentence he never based his pacifism on universal principles...
Coming on their own or under fellowships and exchange programs, about 1,600 dark-skinned students from African nations are enrolled this year in U.S. colleges and universities. To catalogue their achievements and their difficulties, Manhattan's Institute of International Education undertook a six-month survey and last week announced the results. Among the survey's findings: most of the African students reported that they had suffered some sort of discrimination from white Americans-and a surprising 63% also said that they had experienced friction with U.S. Negroes...