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Frankly Interested. To peddle the placebo, the Administration plucked old State Department Hand Livingston Merchant from retirement. To his surprise, MLF met with a surprisingly warm reception. Though some allied statesmen hemmed that its cost would prevent them from meeting U.S. requests to strengthen conventional forces, West Germany, Italy and Belgium were frankly interested. Last month Merchant actually succeeded in extracting a commitment from West Germany to pay 40% of the entire cost of the project...
...troubled by the disappointing start of the Alliance for Progress, the Organization of American States last fall appointed a committee of two to make a survey of what went wrong and what should be done about it. The roving critics were two of Latin America's most distinguished statesmen, temporarily out of work: Juscelino Kubitschek and Alberto Lleras Camargo, former Presidents of Brazil and Colombia. For three months, they went their independent ways, studying reports, conferring with Alliance officials, huddling with economists and politicians in Latin American capitals. Then they met in Rio de Janeiro to compare notes. They...
...invited guests came poets, painters, sculptors, dramatists, composers, actors, novelists, classical scholars, university and college presidents, jurists, clergymen, editors, journalists, statesmen, soldiers, and bankers. It is pronounced to have been a gathering of eminence such as has been rarely equalled on this continent...
...best organizers, in U.S. unionism today. Said Hoffa: "Everybody's running scared, that's what's wrong. The trouble is we're in an age of labor leaders. They're looking toward retirement and they want to be labor statesmen. I saw George Meany on Meet the Press and I felt sorry for the poor bastard. He's pathetic...
...Kennedy is really determined to Stalinize West Europe, he may be able to find a few compliant "little four" statesmen to help him. But he risks defeating his own purpose with strong-arm tactics, and there is already evidence that a Belgian-Italian-German backfire has started to build...