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...Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, the only living ex-President of the United States, mulled over the cause & effect of World War II in the American magazine last week: "We never would have been attacked by the Japanese if we had not given them provocation. ... If we had kept out of the immediate conflict, we could have put our sword down on the table, with our economic resources intact, and made a decent peace when the time for peacemaking came. I never believed Britain was in danger of defeat. When Germany attacked Russia, it made a British victory possible...
Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen...
Last week President Truman and representatives of the hemisphere's nations watched Brazil's massive military Independence Day parade. In his graceful speech before Congress, Harry Truman had mentioned nearly every Brazilian statesman, and had made cariocas swell with pride. Standing and applauding that speech, a Brazilian had paused to exclaim: "Aren't we having a good time with all this...
Many U.N. diplomats understand that to classify Gromyko it is necessary to realize that he is not only a new statesman, but a prototype of a new race of men. In Darkness at Noon, writing of those bullheaded, bull-minded men who grew up under the Revolution's rod, Novelist Arthur Koestler described that new race...
...world political situation has not improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...