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...President went on to his major pronouncement: "The immediate goal of our foreign policy is to support the United Nations to the utmost." There was a feeble cheer, a few seconds of applause for this implicit answer to Winston Churchill's call for an Anglo-American fraternity of interests against Russia. The U.S. pledges its power behind the United Nations' "right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the Near and Middle East must not be threatened by coercion or penetration." No response from the crowd...
...exaggerating its importance or Anglo-American failure to follow through with a positive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere might snatch away the victory's fruits. What happened at U.N. last week was this: when the Security Council met to discuss Iran, Russia was still absent. But Andrei Gromyko had written that Russia would withdraw her troops from Iran by early May and that "other questions" like oil and Azerbaijan were "not connected" with the evacuation. Next day Byrnes moved to accept the Soviet reply, with Russia and Iran making a further report on May 6. The Council...
...Western powers, it was, oddly enough, Britain, not the U.S., which took the lead in a more constructive approach to colonial questions. Last week Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin lent new importance to the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations by announcing that he would go in person to Cairo to participate in revision of the basic treaty between the two countries. Bevin's promise might stave off a possible Egyptian move to call U.N.'s attention to the presence of British troops in Egypt...
...letter to St. Augustine of Canterbury* in 601, Pope Gregory the Great laid down a general principle of conversion that overzealous missionaries have often forgotten. Its gist: adapt much, change little. Speaking of the pagan Anglo-Saxons, Gregory sagely observed: "If they can go to their old temples . . . they will feel more at home in the worship of the true God. . . . We must act as those climbing a high hill, proceeding by small steps rather than by long leaps...
...book by Anglo-Irish Novelist Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart) is an event, even if a large section of the U.S. has yet to realize it. This new collection of short stories may bring a few more readers to appreciate her peculiar talent. She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply...