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Favors & Flattery. Right at the start of the polemical sham battle over Poland Roosevelt exposed the poverty of the Anglo-American effort. There were two related avenues for a strong U.S. approach: the high principles of self-determination for even the smallest state, and the heavy pressure of such practical measures as Russia's stake in the future of West Germany. Instead, Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them...
...partner into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
French justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
...marriage and babies. But the ladies shared some of the week's agony. The General Electric Theater offered Johnnie Ray, the crybaby singer, in a drama about an emotional vocalist named Johnnie Pulaski who nobly spurned fame and fortune because his boss wanted him to sing under an Anglo-Saxon stage name...
Beowulf rides again in William Alfred's "Early English Literature," English 100a, meeting in Longfellow 110. Following Anglo-Saxon writing from 540 to 1054, Alfred will emphasize poetry and early conceptions of the hero. No knowledge of Old English is required...