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Hull, "for nearly 100 years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning." He proposed that an international trusteeship be set up with a polyglot membership including French, Chinese, Russian, Philippine, U.S. and Indo-Chinese representatives, to prepare the country for independence. But the idea died with F.D.R. The French moved back into Indo-China, and with monumental lack of foresight, immediately reimposed the same old colonial order. Thus was the stage set for Dien-bienphu, partition and the present war. Historian Schlesinger concedes with disarming candor that history is a terribly "tricky" tool for predicting...
...goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany, and 2) withdrawal of the U.S. from Europe. Complains Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The United States believes for some reason or other that Europe cannot do without its presence and trusteeship. But the people of Europe have and will yet have their say on this score...
...West Side Chicago, where he has been concentrating his crusade since January, Martin Luther King stood outside a slum tenement and pronounced: "I am hereby assuming trusteeship of this building to make life more livable for the tenants." All that the five families in the building had to do was to hand their rent over to King instead of the landlord, the Negro leader explained, and he would use it to renovate the place and turn the balance over to the owner. Conceding that this might be considered "supralegal," King contended: "We aren't dealing with the legality...
...magistrate had already made up his mind about the case. Chicago's Judge James B. Parsons, first Negro ever appointed to a federal district bench in the continental U.S., described King's "trusteeship" as "theft." Said Parsons: "The laws of theft are as important to Negroes as they are to anyone else...
...growing myth as the New Haven continues on the downward track to oblivion. Today the railroad has seventy per cent fewer passengers than in 1922, less than half the freight revenue of 1943, one quarter the number of employees of forty years ago. Nothing, including reorganization under trusteeship after the New Haven filed for bankruptcy in 1961, seems to have offered any hope...