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...dream of a United States of Europe has captivated statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill. But for Britain, still dreaming of the days when it was the greatest power on earth, togetherness with the Continent has always seemed a kind of national capitulation, and it has remained proudly aloof across the 20 miles of Channel water separating it from Europe. The more Britain's relative power in world affairs ebbed, the more Britain seemed afraid that her own prideful identity might be lost in a vast new European nation. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Iron Curtain, from the Arctic...
Stiff though the emergency measures might be, they could only be stopgap as long as British management and labor continue their easygoing, old-fashioned way of doing business. An increasing number of British statesmen and economists insist that a lasting cure can be effected only by Britain's entry into the Common Market. Under the icy blast of aggressive European competition, they argue, British industry may be shocked into new life...
...editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders. While his skin turns lobster-red and he blisters his insides with coffee from a king-size cup, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin is hard at work...
...Allied intervention was also a mistake, the result of great confusion in the minds of Western statesmen as to the situation in Russia and as to their own aims. It could never have accomplished its purpose--the overthrow of the Bolsheviks--and it served only to help the Soviet Government rally the forces of nationalism. The Allies also passed up a number of opportunities to retire gracefully from the intervention, thus compounding the blunder...
...politics, except for the old drive for independence and a newer concern for peace and quiet; thus they are diplomatically uncommitted in the Cold War. Yet, in most cases, their values come from the West, and men like Ayub Khan and Nyerere are trying to do precisely what Western statesmen should be doing--reworking the Western liberal heritage to apply it to the non-Western world. On their success or failure depend the answers to the questions that Mrs. Dean says must still be resolved: whether the present benevolent authoritarianism will turn toward democracy or toward totalitarianism? whether the guided...