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...said that French officers, after a tour of duty in Laos, remain forever afterward vaguely inattentive and quietly dissolute in manner. But last week the French had put aside love and proverbs for a hard look at Laos' defenses: under King Sisavang Vong's banner (a field of red with three white elephants under a white parasol), Laos could muster only 10,000 trained & tried soldiers and 13,000 armed but untried men, all with French officers...
...McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and new acquaintances, e.g., John D. Rockefeller Jr., 79 (of whom Adenauer said: "I really do not understand why he is still called Junior"). He was touched by his visit to Arlington Cemetery, where a U.S. Army band played The Star Spangled Banner and the Deutschlandlied (purged version of Deutschland Uber Alles) as he laid a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's Tomb. "Such a day," he said, "is more important than many sheets of paper covered with writing...
...bloody revolution that brought to power the leftist-nationalist government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro. For five hours, partisans paraded through La Paz's zigzag streets, brandish ing the guns they seized in last year's fighting, shouting "Viva el Presidente !" and "Down with Imperialism!" A big banner draped on the presidential balcony proclaimed: "Economic Independence." A miners' contingent marched past with three dogs labeled "The Tin Barons"- a slap at the three big tin firms nationalized during Paz Estenssoro's first year...
...leaves a weak and divided Korea, if it lets Red China into the U.N., it will serve notice on all Asians that the Communists are winning the struggle for Asia, and millions of Asians will drift to the Communist banner. But a Korean truce does not have to be that kind of truce, either in its terms or its enforcement...
...does have a wonderful target. The intellectuals of his title are a specific group; they are the habitudes of "cocktail parties of New York, Boston, and the choicer Eastern universities." Not all of them, of course, but the ones who huddle today under the banner of academic freedom although in 1940 they strove to lynch any professor who said a favorable word about fascism. Not all of them, of course, but those who signed petitions drawn up by people they didn't know, in favor of causes that they hadn't even heard of, but who today shrug off anti...