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...Macmillan is deeply interested in European integration, because he feels that it is bad for Britain to feel pushed around and overshadowed. Europe has been and still should be a great force in the world. Other areas have combined, and there is no reason Europeans should not combine to assert, protect and expand those valuable things for which they stand in the world. Looking to the future, Macmillan thinks that perhaps one source of increased British self-confidence will be found in closer economic and political ties with Europe. That does not mean weaker ties with...
...Chinese Communists will probably continue to encourage revolutionary movements in Asia, Friedrich and Brzezinski assert. "There is also no doubt," the authors state, "that the areas of conflict and unrest in the Middle East will provide the Soviet Union with ample opportunities for political maneuvers to set in motion a revolutionary chain of events...
...after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this. The American boast is a proud one, but I believe...
...broad new venture would not be without domestic U.S. opponents-whom Nixon, perhaps, was better placed than Eisenhower or Dulles to convince and win over. Even Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey took to a podium in the Waldorf-Astoria before flying to Paris for the NATO meeting to assert that some estimates of Western Europe's need for new U.S. aid had been "greatly exaggerated. The fact is that in all probability existing institutions will be able to provide most of the assistance that may be needed." But the fact also was that any aid program backed wholeheartedly...
...group of Senators will assert that the Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate votes to halt filibusters. If these Northern Senators can secure a majority to support their argument against the continuity of Senate rules, they can pass whatever new rules they wish without fear of filibuster on their own move...