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...theme of the play has as much (and no more) validity in 1947 as it had in 1921: we should aspire to live longer if we wish to live, and govern, well. Our statesmen are "not old enough for their jobs." Now an irrepressible 90, Bernard Shaw adds in his postscript...
...Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to U.N., offered a little suggestion to his fellow statesmen: do not forget "the individual human person." Mused Philosopher Malik: "Who is this person? This person ... is the living, dying man, who suffers and rebels, is scared, makes mistakes . . . hesitates . . . gossips . . . even blushes and laughs. . . . This being ... is in danger of being drowned and obscured by ... systems. . . . We need champions of the mind and spirit...
...Prague last week the inveterate optimism of those who regard international sports as international cure-alls was justified for once. An Austrian ice hockey team accomplished what statesmen had tried in vain-to make the Czechs love their former masters...
...Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
Labor and management will reach "a stable industrial relationship" on their own "unless the so called statesmen in Washington gum up the works," it was predicted last night by Clinton S. Golden at the law School Forum in Sanders Theater. Golden, long a top policy maker in the CLO and now counsellor to the United Steelworkers, shared the platform with Leo Wolman, professor of labor relations at Columbia, in discussing the topic. "The Causes of Industrial Strikes...