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...Fruits of Retreat. Finally, in any assessment of what the Israelis win or lose by giving in, their most significant gain may be the degree to which President Eisenhower has now committed the U.S. in the Middle East. Lacking a steadfast and mature Middle East policy, the U.S. in the past tended to follow the British lead there long after it ceased to in other parts of the world. All that ended in the wreckage of Suez, and the U.S. has moved to fill the Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab...
...aftermath of the "glorious" invasion, Israel found itself ingloriously alone. It could boast of but one steadfast friend these days: France. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion warned of "difficult political struggles" ahead, not so much with "our enemies" as with "peoples who do not hate Israel." Other Israelis noted glumly that some $30 million in U.S. grants-in-aid and a $75 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, both approved long before Israel's invasion of Egypt, had not been released since...
More puzzling than the bad grades was the fact that John, in Chicago a steadfast member of the Presbyterian Church choir, was getting a reputation for being a big and wild spender. He shoveled money around like snow, ostentatiously picked up the tab at parties and restaurants, jazzed around town in a new $3,500 Oldsmobile convertible. When his friends asked him where he was getting all his cash, John always brightly shot back that old gag, "I robbed a bank." It was great for laughs...
Since the sorrow-filled day in 1918 when he learned that his elder brother had been killed in France with the A.E.F., Massachusetts' Christian Archibald Herter has held steadfast to a dream: to achieve a position in which he could work effectively for peace. Last week Herter's dream was fulfilled. He was named Under Secretary of State succeeding Herbert Hoover Jr., whose resignation, effective next February, was accepted by President Eisenhower...
Eide maintains that by Lampoon standards this line is very funny because it has an "unprogressive" philosophy at its foundation. He was offered 800 rubles (two hundred dollars at the official rate) for the article but declined to be so "capitalistic." He remained steadfast even after he was told, "Take it. It's the States' money...