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France's new Premier Edgar Faure has set himself a characteristic goal: to steer a middle course between Mendès-France's contentious boldness and the do-nothingism of Mendès' predecessors. "I know people will talk about my having a small appetite," he said. "I don't eat everything in sight. I nibble...
...United States is moving in Asia on a bi-partisan policy," Cheever said. "The President has to steer a middle course between the Democrats and the Republicans," and will not make any unnecessary warlike moves...
...NEVER WAS, by Ewen Montagu, was one of the "best single stories to come out of World War II, a grisly account of how the German command was given a wrong steer on the Sicilian invasion by phony papers taken from a uniformed corpse prepared by British intelligence and washed ashore in Spain...
...popular front swept Athens. The popular front's non-Communists had to shout to make their victory orations heard. From batteries of Iron Curtain radios, the Communists started clamoring for national elections in response to "the demands of the masses," to get rid of Premier Papagos and steer Greece on to a neutralist foreign policy. At week's end Papagos decided that the revenge of General Katsotas had gone far enough: the new mayor of Athens, a Papagos spokesman sternly warned, would not be tolerated if his office became "a bailiwick for political action and intrigue...
...conflicting definitions of co-existence rattle about the Congressional chambers, the debate over the desirable direction to steer American foreign policy continues unsettled. Defiantly arguing against the Administration are extremists like Senator Knowland who urge that violent action against the Soviets is America's only chance for survival. The foreign policy split is particularly aggravated by the continual juggling of the co-existence idea. Whereas the Soviets' use of the word has given it the unsavory flavor of "appeasement," Knowland has pushed further by charging that co-existence will allow Russia to swallow the free world. Unfortunately, the extremist attitude...