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...Moscow," says the paper, "is a great center of political, artistic and economic life; the wisest statesmen, most responsible exponents of economic organization and most open-minded scholars all turn to Moscow." So does L'Unit...
...American Conference in Caracas last week doubted that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could put through the U.S. program against Communism in the Americas. But in pressing his cause, Dulles ran smack into the age-old Latin American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick in the pants...
...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
...mapmakers could stop waiting on the statesmen. At least for the foreseeable future, the face of Europe was frozen in its present shape...
...NATO statesmen, Historian Dawson offers the comfort of a historical parallel: for the everyday citizen in the world of 1954, a reminder that a long-created moral order is already in existence...