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...John Foster Dulles, for his bipartisan contribution to the foreign policy of the U.S., a worldly statesman. . .with moral conviction...
...elder statesman of U.S. industry last week took a look into 1949-and blinked his eyes at the rosy glow. The reason for the glow, thought General Motors' Afired P. Sloan Jr., was the continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...
With typical Shavian logic, Bernard Shaw, 92, briefly considered in The New Statesman and Nation his physical and spiritual homes: "I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race...
...Every statesman, in his first go at negotiating with Russia, thinks that he will succeed where others have failed. Argentina's Juan Bramuglia was no exception. Nervously chain-smoking his black Argentine cigarettes, he spent two weeks shuttling back & forth between the Soviet Embassy and the headquarters of the Western delegations, trying to work out a compromise for the Berlin crisis...
...could discover," he wrote in a recent issue of London's New Statesman and Nation, "I suffered no ill effects from reading [Bevin] after lunch instead of with my breakfast. Sobered by this discovery, I began to reflect on the philosophy of 'news.' News coverage in our popular press is based on the principle that every paper every day must excel all its rivals in not 'missing' the latest news available ... The definitions of 'hot news' and 'news value' are largely an Anglo-Saxon convention...