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...European and American political, moral and diplomatic activities for the last half century. The obvious failure of the Welfare State, nationalization and all the trappings of economical and domestic featherbedding in Britain speaks for itself. The hasty scuttle of benevolent imperialism (a much misunderstood word in the U.S.) from backward and dependent peoples was a second victory handed on a plate to the Kremlin-the first victory was, of course, the Roosevelt idea that the Russian leopard had changed its spots in three short years...
Leeches at the Veins. Inside the Kremlin, working on their 73-year-old patient with all the artifices of medicine, the doctors tried penicillin, oxygen mask, glucose injections for nourishment, caffeine for stimulation. They even reached desperately backward for a remedy: leeches to suck at the old man's veins...
...German forces (the European Defense Community) is "not dead but only sleeping . . . There is a good chance that [it] will be brought into being." For the European leaders he had met, and for their difficult problems, Dulles had sympathy and praise: "Men of vision and stature, they look not backward but forward. They see the land of promise that lies ahead, and they desire to move into...
Colombia's campaign is part of a drive launched in 77 countries by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (in other lands the fight is against a variety of diseases from yaws to kwashiorkor). It is a prime example of a technically backward country's being helped to help itself. UNICEF out up $100,000 and arranged for Michigan's Dr. Pearl Kendrick, the world's top authority on vaccines for whooping cough, to help Colombia set up a laboratory. To get the program started, 80,000 shots were supplied from U.S. labs...
...duties began with post-war Europe ready to collapse, England definitely broke, the Balkans and Turkey either under Communist domination or in very poor health. They began with the United Nations chained to a procedural requirement--unanimity. They began with backward peoples yearning for national identity, and turning to Communism to find...