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About the only people that aren't satisfied with it are the National Guardians, who are complaining because they are afraid that they will be trained. Of course, the threat of training may well wipe out the National Guard, or a large segment of it. But this only proves that the National Guard is not worth saving, at least in its present form. It is a relic of a Jeffersonian fear of standing armies and in this day should not be given much consideration, especially by Congress. Put up your dukes, General Walsh, we're ready to fight...
Surrender Reversed. Given so much time to brace itself, even a second-class army should have been able to wipe out an unsupported landing by two battalions of paratroopers. Instead, the Egyptian army left Port Said insufficiently garrisoned and such troops as were there, after a gallant but ineffective initial resistance, rapidly became disorganized. By afternoon of the first day of fighting General Mohammed Riad, governor of Port Said, was ready to talk surrender (a fact Anthony Eden announced to a cheering House of Commons). But when he telephoned Cairo for permission, he was told: No surrender; Port Said must...
...urging action. And most important, the President went to Geneva, where he became chummy with the Soviets and apparently convinced them that neither the East nor the West could afford to bear the guilt of starting the Third, and last, World War, in which atomic and nuclear weapons might wipe out Man himself. Could Stevenson have afforded to be this? We doubt it. Would the Republicans have accepted the ensuing "competitive coexistence" if it had come from a Democrat who had been attacked for giving Alger Hiss a character reference? We doubt it. Would Senator McCarthy have refrained from shouting...
Last November President Eisenhower's Committee on Government Contracts, which seeks to wipe out discrimination in companies doing business with the Government, called together the presidents of eleven airlines. Some of them readily admitted the ban on Negro flight personnel, but promised to eliminate it gradually. Last week's statement was one of the first big steps in this direction...
...State has suggested two routes, both of which would cut across East Cambridge, Vellucci's home section. One route, according to Vellucci, "will wipe out an entire neighborhood, including my own home...