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...miles on journeys to Berlin, London, Paris, Caracas, Bonn, Geneva, Milan, Manila and Tokyo. In one fortnight last September, he munched mangoes with Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay in Manila, conferred with Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa, visited Premier Yoshida in Tokyo, reported to President Eisenhower in Denver, consulted with Winston Churchill in London and talked with Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. En route, he read a detective story in mid-Pacific, slept soundly across the Atlantic, and carried on U.S. State Department business as he crossed one international border after another. On his trips to reinforce the free world outposts, Dulles...
...nominate Winston Churchill "Man of the Century," as Man of the Year is too small a title...
...officially classed as a "medium bomber." British designs are often first-rate, but British production is sluggish. The major difficulty is that the British Cabinet is still unsure how best to apportion its defense funds to meet the facts of the Hydrogen Age. "The H-bomb," confessed Sir Winston Churchill last month, "has fundamentally altered the entire problem of defense . . . Considerations founded even upon the atom bomb have become obsolescent, almost old-fashioned...
...book on World War II equaled in stature or importance Winston Churchill's memoirs, concluded last year. The generals, U.S. and foreign, kept publishing their personal accounts, all useful to historians but unlikely to change the main outlines set in past years. More immediate and sobering were the lessons of the war in Korea. Like other top commanders, Mark Clark, in FROM THE DANUBE TO THE YALU, argued that the Korean war should and could have ended in victory instead of an uneasy stalemate that was in effect a defeat...
During the splendorous presentation ceremony in big, drafty Westminster Hall last week, Parliament got its first look at the portrait it had commissioned as an 80th birthday gift for Sir Winston Churchill. The reaction was immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example...