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...HOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR REPORTER IN WHICH I TRIED TO GIVE AN HONEST ESTIMATE OF WHAT IS FINE AND WHAT IS BAD ABOUT RADIO JOURNALISM, YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PRINT FOUR SENTENCES. THESE . . . HAVE RATHER CRUELLY MISREPRESENTED MY VIEWS AND HAVE DONE INJURY TO MY POSITION VIS-À-VIS MY PROFESSION AND MY COLLEAGUES IN RADIO FOR MOST OF WHOM I FEEL THE GREATEST RESPECT. ERIC SEVAREID Washington...
...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...
...letter was even more scathing than the speech in its criticism of U.S. policy vis á vis Russia. It charged "a school of military thinking" with advocating a "preventive war" before Russia perfected her own atomic bomb. It denounced the U.S. plan for atomic control as humiliating to the Russians. The letter was a kind of secondary explosion which blew the Secretaries of War and Navy and Bernard Baruch, godfather of the atomic-control plan, clean out of their seats. They arrived at the White House with denials and protests...
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
Explicit Backing. The new Sino-Russian treaty in Chiang's pocket, dropped there by Premier Soong's masterly diplomacy in Moscow (and presumably by hardheaded Russian evaluation of Chinese Communist strength vis-a-vis Central Government strength), brought the "political solution" near realization...