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...Mencken conceded that Dwight Eisenhower is not a bad President. A "better-than-average President," said Mencken, and doing well "for a general." All this was a sign to his friends that Mencken, who has denounced every U.S. President since Teddy Roosevelt, is mellowing. Only once did Mencken unleash a hearty blast. General Douglas MacArthur, he said, is "a dreadful fraud, who seems to be fading satisfactorily...
...World War II, laid down a new zig in Russia's zigzag foreign policy. Stalin denounced the Western democracies for "urging Germany on to march farther East." Thus he foreshadowed his deal with the Nazis (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939), which helped unleash Hitler's invasion of Poland. Stalin told the delegates: "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world...
...deeper still. As a general proposition, I feel that the interests of a free society are better served by diversity, competition, and private initiative than by state-controled uniformity--even when uniformity hides behind the slogans of democracy. It is amusing to imagine the storm Mr. Conant would unleash it he advocated, say, the nationalization of the steel industry. Will equal protests arise among Harvard's friends when the President questions the raise of private activity in education...
...deeper still. As a general proposition, I feel that the interests of a free society are better served by diversity, competition, and private initiative than by state-controlled uniformity--even when uniformity hides behind the slogans of democracy. It is amusing to imagine the storm Mr. Conant would unleash if he advocated, say, the nationalization of the steel industry. Will equal protests arise among Harvard's friends when the President questions the value of private activity in education...
...worst, if disorders flare up in Iran as a result of nationalization, the Russians may intervene, grab the oil, even unleash World War III. The Russians would not necessarily have to use the Red army to move into Iran; the northern border province of Azerbaijan (which the Russians tried to annex in 1946) might be used by Moscow to set up a "native Iranian" Communist regime...