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...appeasement." But Adlai Stevenson had not explicitly suggested any concessions to Communism. Truman and Eisenhower had both said that the U.S. would confer with the Soviet leaders if the circumstances offered any chance of progress toward peace. Stevenson's proposal could be read as advocacy of a "softer" approach or it could be read as a restatement of an old U.S. attitude. This ambiguity was appropriate in the leader of a party whose logical course at present is to wait and see what kind of trouble the Republicans get into...
Actually, a softer approach to Red Chinese membership in the U.N. has been indicated in the past by at least one member of the Eisenhower Administration. Wrote John Foster Dulles in his book, War or Peace: "If the Communist government of China in fact proves its ability to govern China without serious domestic resistance, then it, too, should be admitted to the United Nations." That, however, was written more than three years ago-before the Chinese Reds swarmed into the Korean war. Last week it was plain that the U.S. position was quite different...
...there were differences. Van Gogh had shown his actor full-face against a solid green background; the new one was a softer painting, a profile set off by gay bands of yellow, green and blue. The experts' decision: Vincent Van Gogh had indeed influenced the painter of the second Actor: it was a hitherto undiscovered work by his equally famed colleague and onetime friend, Paul Gauguin...
...despite his softer tones and more subtle shadings, Dulles was as unshaken as ever in the belief that a workable European defense system is an essential. Said he: "Our effort will not permanently serve Europe, or ourselves, or humanity, unless it fits into a constructive program for European unity. Nothing that the U.S. can do will ever be enough to make Europe safe if Europe is divided into rival national camps...
...wash, and are water-repellent, so that when we move with any energy at all we sweat and stay wet and itchy and smelly for the rest of the day." His remedy: "dishcloth underclothes," knitted of cotton yarn. Just as warm as wool, he says, easier to wash, softer-and cheaper...