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CLEA, by Lawrence Durrell. Last of a quartet of novels in which Durrell, one of the few real English stylists alive, examines the shifting nature of truth against the sultry background of old Alexandria and through the devious natures of the kind of odd cast of characters that only Durrell can assemble...
Four years ago the U.S. was anxiously instructing all the world's neutrals in the dangers of Communism, worriedly warned that the devious Communists would worm their way into any neutralist regime and make off with it. The U.S. has learned that a strong nationalist government, firmly rooted in its own people, can defend itself against Communism's blandishments and pressures, not on behalf of the West but on its own behalf. In their turn, neutralists have watched Communism operate, and learned to be wary. India has learned that Red China talks peace but grabs off border lands...
...Dwight Eisenhower made clear, the U.S. has no devious power-politics interests in Africa. In fact he went so far as to propose to clear all propaganda, all educational programs and the bulk of all economic aid through the U.N. The U.S. has, in fact, no fundamental objectives in Africa beyond those of the Africans for themselves-true independence, economic growth and the maintenance of peace...
...wide range of activities in the fifty universities makes comparison of their available number (3 per cent) with the total figure of institutions misleading. While much talent does pass by local schools for the wealthier ones, it does not do so because of any devious recruiting by several academic Oklahomas. Holland states that need analysis and standardized stipends "cement" the concentration of talent; yet this suggestion that all schools should bid for talent in a scholarship market-place would make a student's choice of college a narrowly financial affair...
Talk-Weary. In the talk-weary halls of Geneva, Soviet maneuvers were just as devious. The nuclear test-ban talks sessions had gotten down to discussing about how many on-site inspections a year would be permitted. The U.S. and Great Britain wanted about 20; fortnight ago Russia consented to three. Though U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth rejected the Russian offer as "ludicrous and completely unacceptable," he added hopefully: "At least we now know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing...