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Neither extreme is justified. The two-term limit is not, as Representative Joe Martin claims, a "victory over totalitarianism." Georgia has had a one-term limit on its governors, who have hardly been models of democratic statesmen. Nor will it destroy the freedom of choice between parties which is the important part of elections today...
...other Japanese politicians whom Dulles will see were ready for some close negotiating. The anti-Communist Japanese have little doubt about whose side they are on, but it was as plain as the peak of Mount Fuji that, in return for a pro-U.S. policy, Japan's statesmen intend to squeeze as much U.S. aid as they can out of any peace treaty...
...YEAR WHEN ALL STATESMEN, DIPLOMATS AND POLITICIANS FAILED AT PEACE, THERE IS BUT ONE MAN OF THE YEAR. HE IS THE SOLDIER IN KOREA, FIGHTING AND DYING FOR A SPIRITUAL GOAL IN A MATERIAL WORLD...
Orders from the Chief. If magazine editors as well as generals and statesmen were tripped up by the turnabout in Korea, so were many U.S. newspapers. In their efforts to keep up with fast-moving news, some editorial writers had a hard time deciding where to stand...
While Austin talked, Wu had sat tense as a coiled spring. In appearance, the Wu at whom the statesmen and television viewers stared for an answer bore no resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part...