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Instead of forcing a premature showdown, Dulles could help settle the vital dispute. France demands some safeguard from a future attack by Germany. Dulles could give them this protection by assuring the French of aid in the event of attack. This would hardly slur the Germans, who insist they will never attack anyway. As the Administration has linked America's fate with that of Europe, this French guarantee would entail no major change of policy. By taking this step Dulles could save EDC from months of internal wrangling and place European rearmament one step nearer completion...
...Prime Minister couldn't make up his mind about who should command NATO's navies in the Mediterranean. Churchill querulously retorted that things "may not all be as unfortunate for this country as [Mr. Shinwell] would no doubt wish." "Withdraw!" bawled the Labor benches at this slur on Shinwell's patriotism, but the Prime Minister's dander was up. Instead of withdrawing, he recklessly peppered the air with further opprobrium: an ambiguous reference to "cosmopolitanism," which is a word the Kremlin likes to hurl at Jews. Laborites booed and hissed as Churchill started to stride...
...good. Drum is still occasionally criticized by readers. Once when it charged that some witch doctors were encouraging tribal ritual murder, the editors had to placate a delegation of seven witch doctors who went to Drum's editorial office in full raiment to protest strongly the "slur on a noble profession...
From the same platform, A.M.A. President Louis Bauer soon fired back: "[Admiral Pugh's] statements were an unjustifiable slur on the vast majority of the medical profession, and were calculated . . . to hurt the very cause in which he and all the rest of us are interested." Navyman Pugh backed water, but not much. "If I have offended any one for whom no offense was intended," he said, "then it is to that group [that] . . . I owe an apology . . . My critical remarks . . . were leveled at an element or group in the medical profession who have not served in the armed...
...Slur or not, Admiral Pugh's attack emphasized the bald fact that the armed forces are still having trouble getting enough doctors. Soon they may have to start drafting physicians and dentists up to 51 years...