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Just two years ago the Advocate, in an attempt to abandon a stereotyped "artiness," printed a flurry of expository articles like "The Jew at Harvard." The articles were interesting, but they ducked the problem. Instead of improving its content, the magazine simply changed it. The latest Advocate takes on a bigger job; it sticks largely to fiction, which means that content alone cannot put it over. This is a much more limited and therefore a much more difficult job. The new Advocate does it well...
...Asia, "the Soviet Union could impose its demands on the world . . . The Soviet Union does not have to attack the United States to secure domination of the world. It can achieve its ends by isolating us and swallowing up our allies. Therefore, even if we were craven enough to abandon our ideals, it would be disastrous for us to withdraw from the community of free nations . . . No one nation can find protection in a selfish search for a safe haven from the storm...
...Hoover's favor, but this was unusual; other Congressmen found their mail much more evenly divided. People on both sides of the argument tried to claim Hoover as their own. Actually, what seemed to strike home in Hoover's argument was not that the U.S. should abandon its search for allies, but that its allies must do more to defend themselves...
Pause & Pass On. President Truman stepped briefly but emphatically into the debate at his weekly press conference. The Hoover proposals were nothing else but isolationism, said the President, and the nation was not going back to it. Added Dean Acheson: "To abandon our allies would gratify the Kremlin. To do so would be appeasement on a gigantic scale." The President and his State Department seemed to be taking their cue from a Harvard law professor who, having presented arguments against his own conclusions in a legal case, remarked: "These considerations give me pause, but having paused, I pass on." Massachusetts...
While Russia prepared for war, Schlesinger said that the best course the United States could follow would be to strengthen Europe's defenses so that the Soviet "would abandon aggression...