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...statesman; Dean Acheson and his fellow diplomats of the free world had, in 1950, notably failed to stop the march of Communism. Nor was 1950's man a general; the best commander of the year, MacArthur, had blundered and been beaten. Nor a scientist, for science-so sure at the century's beginning that it had all the answers-now waited for the politicians (or anyone else) to find a way of controlling the terrible power that science had released. Nor an industrialist, for 1950, although it produced more goods than any other year in the world...
...sharp-eyed reporter for the New Statesman and Nation thought it was time to clear up the mystery of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's "secret" four-day trip to England. Platonist Ben-Gurion was browsing through some rare Greek volumes in an Oxford book shop...
Here, as in the three previous volumes, are all the great Churchillian virtues. His candor, in a statesman commenting on events still fresh in memory, is a constant surprise. Much as it obviously pains him, he is not ashamed to voice his dismay at British mismanagement and failure at Singapore and Tobruk, where British armies surrendered to enemy forces about half their number. Admiring skill, he praised German General Rommel in a speech in the House of Commons during Britain's North African setbacks, and still sticks to his praise. When some Britons grumbled about Eisenhower's deal...
...elder statesman of U.S. finance this week warned against straitjacketing the nation's rearmament economy with price & wage controls. In an all-out war, said Russell C. Leffingwell, who at 72 had just stepped down from the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc., such controls are necessary. But in the twilight period of half-war, half-peace that lies ahead, they would stifle the economy. The basic problem, wrote Leffingwell in Barren's, is to stimulate production, discourage nonessential civilian consumption. Price-fixing, he insisted, would do neither...
...radio escaped, no television set was free of the hoarse exhortations and stylized imprecations of eager candidates. Professional and earnest amateur, statesman and anxious hoddypoll, they were shoving and jostling for the last, few, fatal votes from the indifferent and the uncertain...