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Firmly repudiating Togliatti's suggestion that Russia's present leaders were "co-responsible" with Stalin, the Central Committee advanced for the first time the unsubstantiated claim that there had in fact been a staunch "Leninist core" of the Central Committee and that on occasion it opposed Stalin's arbitrary use of power. "There were certain periods, for instance during the war years when the individual acts of Stalin were sharply restricted . . . Members of the Central Committee and also outstanding Soviet war commanders took over certain sectors of activity in the rear, and at the front made independent...
President Magsaysay, staunch friend of the U.S., convinced Secretary of State Dulles during his visit to Manila last March that the U.S. position should be changed in the interests of both countries. The U.S. now agrees to "turn over" U.S. owned "title papers and title claims" to the Philippines, thus upholding by implication the original validity of the U.S. claims. In effect, the statement changes little but accomplishes much. The U.S. will still have use of any bases stipulated by the 1947 treaty, but as guests instead of owners...
...Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...
...self-consciousness about Oxford's identification with past movements, i.e., the Oxford Movement (Keble, Newman, Pusey), the Frank Buchman "Oxford Group"-Moral Re-Armament, the pacifism of the '30s. Whatever the reticence, churchgoing is at a new high level. "It's quite a relief," said one staunch Anglican last week. "Let them have all the bun fights they want. At least, nobody any longer believes that religion is the haven of anti-intellectual obscurantism...
...other economic techniques and forces that the world's leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...