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...Pentagon's Multi-mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe's shallow coastal waters could not easily be destroyed by Soviet submarines or aircraft. Said Ricketts: "Each addi tional weapons system enhances the credibility of other systems." But R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor called it "mon strous military nonsense," and many other British defense officials agreed...
Previous Pollak lecturers were Robert Schuman, Sir John Slessor, David A. Morse, James B. Conant, Per Jacobsson, and Lord Bridges...
...going against the advice of New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who dashed to the Pole last fortnight after setting up a line of supply stations for the Fuchs expedition (TIME, Jan. 13). In a message to London that was made public unintentionally, Sir Edmund told Sir John Slessor, Fuchs's superior, that Fuchs should leave his equipment at the Pole and abandon further travel until next season; to do otherwise would risk the lives of all the men. When Sir John refused to interfere, Hillary agreed to help Fuchs in every way on his perilous march from...
...interview before his speech, Slessor indicated that the one hopeful place in the international picture is in central Europe. The recent revolts in Hungary and Poland, instigated by the supposedly completely indoctrinated youth, in an encouraging sign of "unconquerable human beings," he stated...
...Slessor offered several steps that the West might take to achieve final international stability. First among these would be to give the UN something to do. He suggested letting the UN control all international waterways, and produce and market oil. Slessor also suggested that three "interlocking mutual security treaties, backed by the major powers," be firmly established in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...