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About the McCarthy issue, which underlay so much of what Adlai Stevenson said, Nixon made no direct comment. But the meeting's whole tone was anti-McCarthy. The Vice President said that the Administration, through Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, are "smashing the Communist conspiracy to bits." When New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Nixon as a Communist fighter "who got results, not just headlines," applause swelled through the ballroom...
Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there...
...York Sunday News, which has the most readers in the U.S. (circ. 4,650,000) makes certain assumptions about them: 1) they are literate enough to read picture captions and comic balloons; 2) they are baseball fans; 3) they savvy cop talk. These assumptions underlay a News headline last week...
Against Whom? One other fundamental difficulty, unique to world organization, underlay San Francisco's travail: it had nothing to organize against. The U.S. Constitution probably would not have been adopted had it not provided "for the common defense" against outside enemies. All human groups are held together partly by external pressure. After World War II, the Axis nations would not serve this important purpose for the world at large; their control was reserved to the Big Powers alone. Last week a conference committee decided that the organization would not even have ex-members; the charter would not mention expulsion...
These speculations were noteworthy because: 1) they existed; 2) they had spread from street corners and hamlets to the capitals of the U.S. and Great Britain. But they were only roseate possibilities in the minds of the war planners in Washington and London. Sterner prospects and realities underlay the actual calculations of victory...