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...vain I searched the editorial pages of four leading East Coast newspapers for a similar statement following the latest outrage. Small wonder our foreign policy exhibits a high degree of vacillation. We seem incapable of recognizing an enemy, or determined to hide his identity in a mass of verbiage...
When Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie pleaded gallantly but in vain for League of Nations help against the invading troops of Benito Mussolini in 1936, the wiry little Lion of Judah won the affection of the U.S. That continuing affection was displayed throughout the Emperor's official state visit to the U.S. last week. He was applauded and pursued by an unusually spirited noontime crowd of parade watchers in Washington, by delegates to the U.N. in New York, by autograph seekers along lower Broadway. In Philadelphia, even union pickets on strike at a hotel cheered when he strode...
...sure everyone got the message. But all threats and pleas were useless. Early one morning last week, four air force fighters swooped low over the tile-roofed capital of Tegucigalpa, as troops cut off access to the presidential palace. Villeda Morales' loyal civil guardsmen put up a vain resistance, and gunfire rattled through the cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made a last desperate phone call to Ambassador Burrows for U.S. help. But Washington could not act that fast-if indeed it knew what to do. Over the radio came the classic announcement: "The patriotic armed forces" had overthrown...
...Wilderness. The delegates were even more relieved by Wilson's performance. Over the years, Harold Wilson, 47, has earned the reputation of a vain, slippery opportunist. Less than a year ago, one longtime colleague said: "I have never known such a brilliant or such an unloved man." After Hugh Gaitskell's death last January, Gaitskellites prayed that the party leadership would not go to "Little Harold," as they then called him. Most of the leading Laborites who are now in Wilson's "Shadow" Cabinet found it hard to vote for him in the party election last February...
...Monty Woolley beard, Naismith makes a capital Santa, and Janis Paige is a delectable if ungay divorcee. Stevens, in a lackluster Broadway debut, seems to be one of those staglets whose careers consist of looking vaguely like Gary Grant. The cast's efforts may not be totally in vain. As one departing first-nighter put it: "Well, at least it's a reminder to do Christmas shopping early this year...