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Nobody yet had the answers. If Mendès succeeds in all his aims, France might be in sounder, if more modest, circumstances than it had been in years. And if Mendès-France fails? Said a cynic: "The old gang will come back. Indo-China will still be lost, because as a nation we aren't really ready to fight for Indo-China, and our allies aren't ready to fight if we aren't. EDC might scrape through, more likely be blocked. The Americans and British will rearm the Germans anyway, which we will...
Dulles regards Molotov as one of the most resourceful diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov...
...action in the areas where, he says, federal law permits conditions in the South which are "unfair or substandard by any criterion." He snuggles up to the Fair Deal line long enough to blame the Taft-Hartley law for crippling union organization in the South.* He is on far sounder ground when he recommends an increase in the outdated 75? an-hour minimum wage (which provides the wage floor in some rural Southern plants) and abolition of the device of "learners' permits," which allow even lower pay. Federal-tax amortization benefits, he says, have been "disproportionately granted to Southern...
...should admit past mistakes and concentrate on the sounder aspects of its program. American political opinion is in an unhealthy state, infected by wars and fear of bigger wars. If it worsens, 1960 may find the ADA hauled before the Subversive Activities Control Board. If so, it will have fought the good fight, and lost. But if tensions ease, and hatreds and suspicions with them, the ADA will regain some public respect, and can pride itself on having weathered the storm without sacrificing either its existence or its principles...
There is a sounder argument for the compulsory retirement rules at 65. Business needs a constant flow of new blood and a way of making room at the top for promising executives. Many companies prefer to make retirement mandatory because making exceptions for key men may cause less-needed men to be resentful when they are forced to retire. But some companies that had compulsory retirement systems have dropped them, now permit older workers to stay, on their supervisors' recommendation. The companies decided that the principle is wrong because no two men age alike. Some men are young...