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...comment from the rest of Latin America was surprisingly mild. Few of the expected mobs materialized to hurl rocks at U.S. embassies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei and Venezuela's Raúl Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico's Foreign Ministry said that it regretted a move "which evokes such painful memories," but recognized the humanitarian reasons and hoped the marines' stay "will be as brief as possible." Added Argentina...
Anthony Eden's public life ended in the public disaster of Suez. Broken in health and spirit, he devoted his pasture years to that unbidden duty that commands so many retired statesmen. This is the third and last volume of the Eden memoirs, which altogether fill more than 2,000 pages...
...whipping boy in Millis' analysis is the language of international relations. He feels that the arms race is perpetuated by the use of words whose origins antedate modern weapons. Such concepts as the "national interest," have imprisoned statesmen, he feels, and are keeping them from behaving rationally--from disarming. When baldly stated, this assertion loses what little force it has in the context of Millis' argument. It also belies the ten years of work Millis has devoted to the problem as Director of the Demilitarization Study of the Fund for the Republic. To suggest, as he does, that progress towards...
...statesmen, politicians, and poets seldom lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded...
...sick is NATO? Last week at a three-day conference of the Institute of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, the Atlantic Alliance was the patient and received a thoroughgoing examination by a team of international statesmen...