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...policy is U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, president of the Cities Service Co. (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), who last week left for the U.S. after four weeks in Iran. He had been there as a private citizen, but it was clear that he had at least the tacit approval of the White House and the State Department. Last week, before leaving Teheran, Jones called in reporters. Said he: no deals had been made and no details discussed, but Cities Service might help Iran revive its oil industry, and might buy some Iranian oil. He estimated the cost of getting...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...
...been deterring the Soviet and Chinese Communists from more open armed aggression in Asia today. But would it not be better if that deterrent influence were openly and unashamedly organized on behalf of the Community of Free Nations? That could be done within the framework of the U.N. charter . . ." Tacit Sponsor? Five months ago the U.S. National Security Council agreed "in principle" to the doctrine of retaliation (TIME, Jan. 14, 28). But the U.S. had never officially proclaimed its policy, and thereby had lost the deterrent power that such a policy might have on Red aggression. Last week there were...
...Southern Voice. What makes Calhounism work are the never-ceasing changes that go on below the level of politics and are ultimately reflected in the American party system. Russell will probably achieve tacit party recognition of the Southern Democrats' right to a very large voice in policies primarily affecting the South. But neither Russell nor anybody else can quiet the new accents in the Old South. The industrialization of the South is breaking old patterns, and thousands of Negroes are still migrating North, where nearly a third of them now live, and where the critical struggle to determine...
...situation was readymade for the Communists, whose leaders and guerrillas are almost all Chinese. Today they get direct support from 300,000 immigrant Chinese squatters, and have the tacit sympathy of many Chinese merchants...