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Having haggled over everything from the art of doctoring pictures to the merits of telephone transcripts, the Greatest Show on TV is moving into its third week. Crawling through points of order, irrelevancies, and grandstand speeches, the McCarthy-Army controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
Sure, you pay 78% of the bill . . . But . . . until American soldiers join the fight in Indo-China, you have absolutely no right to say that French policy there is halfheartedly supported by a defeatist France. The IndoChina war is just as unpopular with the French people as the Korean war was with the Americans-with perhaps two slight differences: America fought for three years in Korea, France has been fighting for seven in Indo-China; America came to terms with the Communists at Panmunjom; "the sick man of Europe" is still fighting...
Connoisseurs of political intrigue which means nearly every coffee drinker in the Athens cafés) had another explanation: Papagos was fortifying his position in case of an open struggle with Spyros Markezinis, the ex-Minister of Economic Planning. Markezinis, whose ruthless, unpopular pruning had done much to restore Greece to economic health, had asked for the post of Vice Premier; Papagos had turned him down (TIME, April 12). The coffee house connoisseurs could not quite explain why these two men - who in their disparate ways had done so much for their country - should now be at loggerheads...
...Athens. One was resolute old Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the war hero who was elected Premier at the head of the coalition Greek Rally Party. The other: a brilliant and unpredictable political rival named Spyros Markezinis. A small man with a quick brain, Spyros Markezinis was as unpopular as his new boss was beloved. But Papagos made him Minister of Economic Planning, gave him complete control of the disheveled Greek economy. Soon many of the gossips in Athens cafes were asking: "Who's running the country anyway-the Old Man or Markezinis...
...interrupts: "The way you did in Korea?" The American does not answer and the French journalist continues: "You demand, everyone demands, history demands that we fight on out here. But there is something about Asian wars these days. They cannot be won in the old ways. You cannot win unpopular wars. We are up against something...