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Baker's disappointment must have been great when the HDC, reorganized after a year's recess following World War I, decided to abandon the production of undergraduate plays. They gave as their reason their opinion that these plays had proved too confining, and that the need for "filling the gap between the younger playwrights and Broadway" was being met by the 47 Workshop. The Club's new administration thus decided to produce works which had not previously been given in the United States. For seven years they concentrated on foreign works, but in 1924 it decided that "the trouble with...
Considering the fact that the entire American cold war campaign has been based upon the assumption of cultural superiority coupled with military inferiority, it seems absurd that an intensification of the conflict should lead us to abandon our only effective weapon in the battle for men's minds. We are not, and cannot be, prepared to compete with the Russians in a get tough program. The American public, after all, will not tolerate for themselves either the political gangsterism demonstrated in the Hungarian episode, or the national impoverishment which would be required to match Soviet military potential. Our alternative must...
Burma: Gained independent international stature by its willingness to abandon neutralist caution, and boldly declare its opposition to Communist assaults at home and abroad...
...emphasized the need for better long-range policy planning, which the President recognized last week when he began to realign his foreign-policy staff. It remained for doubting friends to realize that a U.S. that acted with the sureness displayed since the start of 1956'$ crisis would never abandon its world mission for order and justice...
...moral authority-U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold and his flea-sized army appeared Lilliputian figures alongside the forces they were to keep apart (the Anglo-French invasion force alone was 50,000 strong). In Egypt the puny army must somehow ensure that two of the greatest nations in Europe abandon with grievous loss of face a last-ditch attempt to dominate a region of the world vital to their survival as major powers...