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President Johnson's de-escalatory approach comes at a troublous time for allied ground forces in South Viet Nam. Two months after the Tet attacks, they are still largely on the defensive, and in many places in a virtual state of siege. In all probability-regardless of Ho Chi Minh's response, or nonresponse, to Johnson's new terms-U.S. forces in coming months will have to continue their effort to regain the initiative on the ground. South Viet Nam's major population centers are still gravely menaced...
...longtime critic, warned that the Administration seemed to be "poised to plunge still deeper into Asia where huge populations wait to engulf us, and legions of young Americans are being beckoned to their graves." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was no less concerned. "We are facing today the most troublous days in the entire history of the Republic, and I bar no period in making that statement," he said. "We are in the wrong place, and we are fighting the wrong kind of war." He credited Johnson, however, with having "tried hard and vigorously and consistently to find...
Sijo are still written in Korea and, as might be expected in such troublous times, their burden once more is often political. This one, not included in The Ever White Mountain, was written in 1954, at the end of the Korean War, by Yi Un-sang, the foremost living sijo poet...
...interests of all. Although the arguments about Germany were making headlines last week, the fact was that the Allies' positions on Germany were closer than at any time in months, and there was no longer any substantive reason for fearing that German freedom might be traded for a troublous, temporary peace. Russia's Khrushchev would do well to understand that if he ever does start the shooting over Berlin, Western differences will be forgotten and the Allies will be standing together. Khrushchev would be lucky if he could say the same of his own, bullet-enforced Communist alliance...
Eden picked a critical time for his return to public life. In coming months Britain must reach decisions on two troublous issues: the possibility of war over Berlin and the complex problem of membership in Europe's Common Market (TIME, July 7). Even his sharpest critics concede that Eden has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of foreign policy over three decades. Eden's plans for German reunification still influence Foreign Office policymakers, and Macmillan occasionally drops in on Eden at his country home to seek his views. The two do not always agree-last month, in his first major speech...