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Thomas, who has frequently criticized the Administration's foreign policy, urged support of "Eisenhower's effort to use the U.N. as the world's main hope of avoiding World War III." He blamed Truman and Acheson for "failure to turn truce into peace before Russia [could achieve the] strength to interfere so ominously in the Middle East." Concluded Thomas: "The President, however, and the American people, who must deal with things as they now are, can only be hurt by the kind of pontificating [exemplified by] the Alsop effort...
Hammarskjold well knows that as their original fears diminish, each party to the cease-fire will be more inclined to haggle. But he can also count on their awareness that if the U.N. fails to convert the cease-fire into a stable truce, it is a virtual certainty that the Soviets will be roiling Middle Eastern waters again...
...PEOPLES, VOL. II, THE NEW WORLD, by Winston S. Churchill (433 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $6), rolls with Churchillian eloquence over those troubled years between the first great Tudors. including Bloody Mary (the last Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could...
...most important of all, the General Assembly should send troops from neutral nations, like India, Burma, and Sweden, into Hungary to enforce a truce and evacuation of Soviet troops from the area...
...Trojan Truce. But Kemal's tireless Turks had stopped the Allied expedition at the beachheads. In London Church ill was tumbled out of the Admiralty. At Gallipoli the battle bogged down in stalemate. One million men, Allied and Turk, were pinned down in a rocky battleground no more than 25 miles long by 13 miles wide; in places the trenches were only ten yards apart. Across the narrow no man's land, men exchanged gifts of food and cigarettes as well as shots...