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...Korea this week flew Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, a personal emissary from Dwight Eisenhower, with orders to talk to Rhee. Just how Robertson, a neophyte in power politics, or his companion, Assistant Secretary of State Carl McCardle, were to persuade shrewd, sly, dedicated old Syngman Rhee to abandon his lifelong dream was not explained. One weapon at hand: a threat to cut off economic aid should Rhee continue to thwart an armistice...
...Abandon their recognition of Red China...
Harvard showed lots of spirit as it upset a big Holy Cross team, 14 to 6. Crosby scored one touchdown, while a pass to Allen Fordyce accounted for the other. "The abandon with which the Crimson tossed forward passes to the winds and the success attending these passes was surprising," the CRIMSON reported. The assistant manager of the football team, Winslow Carlton '29, resigned his position in order to study, the first time anyone in good academic standing had ever done that...
...once make this present truce, no matter what we put in the agreement about further negotiations for a united Korea, it is no more likely to occur than a united Germany . . . I believe we might as well abandon any idea of working with the United Nations in the East and reserve to ourselves a completely free hand...
...Doubt." Taft was distinctly not recommending that the U.S. completely abandon the United Nations. One section of his speech was a clear, if limited, endorsement of the U.N.: "I believe in the United Nations myself . . . It does have many methods by which, through peaceful persuasion, it can deter and prevent war. It has important agencies which are concerned with the improvement of conditions throughout the world...