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...disagree with the major theme of the editorial, namely, that Harvard should not train so many for the academic world. The greatest influence Harvard can have is in turning out large numbers of teachers. For every teacher trained we produce a multiple of business executives, engineers, statesmen, etc. The teacher in turn, of course, influences the world not only through the classroom but through his writing. A college that contributes a substantial proportion of the outstanding teachers and research men--and obviously the Harvard Ph. D. is going to devote a large part of his time to research even...
Whether they dreamed of it or dreaded it, the statesmen of Western Europe had all come to accept the fact that a new era will dawn on New Year's Day 1959, when the long-planned European Common Market finally begins to forge France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations into a single economic unit. Last week, in dramatic preparation for the new era, ten European nations carried out at one fell swoop the most far-reaching international currency reform since World...
...statesmen who did have cause for self-satisfaction in 1958 were nearly all new men?relative unknowns who had ridden a wave of discontent into power. Most of them were generals?Lebanon's Chehab, Iraq's Kassem, Burma's Ne Win, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, the Sudan's Abboud. And most seemed to have no program beyond the military man's urge to tidy up the frequently corrupt, frequently ineffectual parliamentary systems of young nations...
...Poor to Bow. In achieving all of this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...
...from what he is. In an age that makes a cult of ordinariness, he is a democrat but not an egalitarian. In a world in which power suggests danger, he openly regards the wise exercise of power as the supreme function of man. Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness...