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...World War II; Dulles personally handed Russia's copy to Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik in New York City last month. Not until last week did Moscow's reply arrive. In diplomatic routine, it was simply a memorandum which, like the original U.S. proposals, did not commit anyone to anything. Sample of its tone: "An explanation is desired as to whether . . . the possibility exists of concluding a separate peace with Japan with only a few of the powers participating." (The answer, the U.S. had already said...
...listened to the first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
Fairbank, who was convinced that the order to commit Chinese troops to the Korean conflict came from the central government, disagreed with the suggestion of his colleague, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, that the instructions to the Chinese in Korea are not coming from...
...some advisory decisions that may unalterably commit the student body to be a certain course of action, the Council may not see fit to conduct an opinion poll. In such cases the students must have direct control over their representatives. The referendum provision should be reinstituted...
...usual, canny Getulio was in no hurry to commit himself. From Rio Grande do Sul, the old man issued his first post-election statement. Said Getulio: "I come to power with a heart clean of hate and resentment ... I bow before a triumph which has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people." Aside from talking vaguely about forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government, that was about all he said...