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...Western statesmen can draw a profound, though scarcely new, lesson from India's victorious aggression in Goa: that the world's newer nations are going to act in very much the same fashion as its older ones. Which is to say that the newer nations will wage nationalist wars, mask their territorial ambitions with a rhetoric of self-determination and self-defense, and go unpunished...
...white pioneers, his "patriot chiefs" were hostile "bad Indians." To Josephy, they seem nine "good and brave men,'' whose profound sense of human dignity and love for their own people make them national heroes in the impartial eyes of history. Some of them were warriors, some statesmen; all, says Josephy, who knows his Indians, were tragic figures, "as much a part of our heritage as any of our other heroes and they belong to all Americans now, not just to the Indians...
Khrushchev had a point-of sorts. There are indeed differences among the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany. They have been there for years, ruffling the sensitivities of statesmen and furnishing fodder for cartoonists. In the past they have concerned contributions to NATO, or arguments over colonialism or summitry or economic cooperation. But the alliance has stood for quite a while, and it remains steadfast. Today, the differences center on the problem of Germany and negotiations over Berlin...
...from nuclear testing endanger the health of the world? Last week only Soviet tests were spraying deadly fission products into the atmosphere, but 20-odd shots had been fired in only seven weeks, and from Japan to Norway, from Canada to India, fears and protests formed an anxious chorus. Statesmen and housewives asked scientists for reassurance. They got little: the scientists were worried...
...Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. The first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of the diaries, memoirs and letters of a remarkable family of statesmen reveal the U.S.'s second President, John Adams, as a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who could fight for rebellion against England, shape the Declaration of Independence, and tangle with the most sophisticated minds in Europe-yet always find time to investigate local farming methods...