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This quick journey from somewhere to inconsistency left Army-Navy relations about the same as ever. Anonymous Navy spokesmen, chuckling deeply, thought that the Army couldn't possibly ban the movie from its screens because it had spent a lot of the taxpayers' money helping to produce scenes at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks. Anonymous Army spokesmen, with a knowing air, thought that the Navy (which has joined the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency in banning The Moon Is Blue) might be making a record for the future. Coming soon: The Caine Mutiny, a movie about sex, misery...
British Commonwealth spokesmen thought that India had worked her passage by helping to frame the prisoner-repatriation formula that led to an armistice. Much more important was Britain's view that, with India seated, the conference could roam at will across the whole range of Asian problems, including the question of U.N. recognition of Red China. The British were prepared to sponsor India on the floor of the full Assembly, where the Indians might pick up enough Asian and African votes to secure them an invitation...
Moody also took a swipe at the "northern coal operators . . . who actually are spokesmen for and representatives of another industry . . . The primary concern of the coal mines which are owned by the steel industry is not the price of coal. [It] is the welfare of the steel industry...
...State Department found itself last week in the position of a quarterback who hasn't noticed that his team has possession of the ball. While opportunities for progress against world Communism seethed about them, U.S. public policy spokesmen remained on the defensive, snarled in the wrangle with Syngman Rhee and the "book-burning" controversy...
...atmosphere between allies turned ugly. Rhee proclaimed a "semi-extraordinary emergency" throughout South Korea; spokesmen talked of "spontaneous demonstrations" about to begin. U.N. commanders, exasperated yet sympathetic, tried to guess how much Rhee might be bluffing and could not be sure. They also wondered whether Rhee would be able to control and limit anything he began in so explosive a moment. They told each other that after all, had it not been for the U.N., Rhee would have been pushed into the sea. They talked over the pressures they might bring to bear. The U.N. controls his supplies, gasoline, ammunition...