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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad, busy streets of Montevideo last week it was hard to detect any signs of malaise. Montevideans looked well-fed, as usual, and stores were crowded with customers. Perhaps in no other Latin American capital were sidewalks so conspicuously free of beggars and ragamuffins. The faces in the crowd, as big-city crowds go, showed a high average of cheer...
...intervention established in Korea, then he must act immediately in the United Nations, whether, as he says, the aggressors are friend or foe. Vague mouthings at a time like this are almost worse than nothing, for they will only make the United Nations seem even more ineffectual than usual. If the President does not give full support to the United Nations now, he is actually killing it, for he is brazenly announcing to the world that its international assembly will never be anything more than the tool of Western interests. Supporting the United Nations means taking forceful action; it means...
...these proposals, of course, sound ultraliberal, idealistic, and just chock full of principles. The usual reaction is to judge anything of this sort as merely youthful, and therefore impractical and worthless. But, in a case as grave as the present one, a little idealism may prove extremely pragmatic. For one thing, the application of a few principles is necessary to fumigate an incredibly smelly situation. And the United Nations at this point seems an instrument through which suddenly for the first time the United States and Russia can work together. Because of the momentarily transformed relations between Russia...
Coach McCurdy will stick with the usual lineup of Pete Reider, Dave Norris, captain Dave McLean, Jim Schlaeppi, Dick Wharton, Ralph Perry, John Read, Thompson, Bob Holmes, Bill Morris, Larry Lavers, and Dyke Benjamin...
...above; it is indeed uncanny, especially considering the context from which it emerged. Over and over in the same address, he reiterates the need for strength in the West ("we cannot rely on the cement of fear alone") and America's "historic role" as a virtuous nation. Also, as usual, he insists on "waging peace...