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...World War II should have taught us all one lesson. The lesson is this: To vacillate, to hesitate-to appease even by merely betraying unsteady purpose-is to feed a dictator's appetite for conquest and to invite war itself. That lesson-which should have firmly guided every great decision of our leadership through these later years-was ignored in the development of the Administration's policies for Asia...
Charlie Law's team is favored after its 21 to 0 conquest of New Hampton School on Saturday. Speedy Don Chatman will probably start at left half, and Mel Govig should see action at quarterback. Fullback Larry Halpern and halfback Bill Crosby will round out the starting backfield. Law will probably use the same offensive line that started against New Hampton...
Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Shrike is a compounded horror story. It is frightening as a possessive wife's conquest of a man who wishes desperately to escape her, and as a failure of inadequate and dangerous psychiatric techniques which become the woman's weapon...
Cold War. "Our aim ... is not conquest of territory or subjugation by force. Our aim is more subtle, more pervasive, more complete. We are trying to get the world by peaceful means to believe the truth . . . The means we shall employ . . . are often called 'psychological.' Don't be afraid of that term just because it's a five-dollar, five-syllable word. 'Psychological warfare' is the struggle for the minds and wills of men. Many people think [it] means just the use of propaganda . . . But [that] is not the most important part in this...
...kept from further expansion they will eventually become easier to deal with. Kennan, principal author of the containment policy, tends to see the Politburo as a projection of historical Czarist policy, gives a lesser place in his appraisal to the dynamics of Communism's drive for world conquest. Shortly before he went to Moscow last May, Kennan said: "I will be happy if the work at Moscow gives me a chance to make a contribution to the reduction of existing tensions and the improvement of the international atmosphere. These are objectives which seem to me urgently desirable...