Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perspective of History. The entangling necessity of having to take into account the desires, pride, prejudices and whims of U.N. members has become a permanent complication of U.S. foreign policy. But it is by its own choice that the U.S. meets the complication. During the years since the U.N.'s birth, the U.S., in a momentous shift of national outlook and policy, has committed itself to trying to achieve some of its national objectives through the forum that President Eisenhower called "man's best organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield...
...perspective of history, involvement in the affairs of 81 other nations runs counter to a profound current in the nation's past. Over most of its history, the U.S. has seen overpowering wisdom in George Washington's farewell advice to take advantage of "our detached and distant situation" and "have as little political connection as possible" with foreign nations. Right down to World War II, many a U.S. citizen still believed that the nation's "distant situation," guarded from the Old World by two mighty oceans, made isolation the best policy...
...hand in the shaping of policy. Furthermore, he can, and frequently does, get his instructions changed. He often tells Dulles-or in Dulles' absence, Wilcox-that the course decided upon in Washington is likely to stir reactions or encounter obstacles that the State Department had failed to take into account. Usually Lodge wins his point. Sometimes the "instructions". he gets from Washington are verbatim playbacks of what he wrote out himself. And there are also times when "things happen too fast to rely on specific instructions...
Faubus' landslide raised points far more serious than politics. A Federal Court of Appeals is reviewing Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision to delay for 2½ years integration at Little Rock Central High; if the delay is refused, it will take a brave Negro to claim his rights at school's opening. Most Arkansans also expect trouble in the seven other communities that have already begun integration. In seven Southern states-Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-there is no integration at all, and the newly emboldened anti-integration forces are waiting...
Last week a recalculation in Washington stripped Lebanon of its exclusive little glory. No malice intended, said the geodesists, but with the addition of 586,400 square Alaska miles, the balance would have to move 439 miles northwest -give or take ten miles-to the vicinity of Two Top Peak, a butte eleven wagon-trail miles west of Castle Rock...