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Grand Strategy. Since 1949, when the U.S.S.R. set off its first atomic explosion, U.S. grand strategy has been based on the proposition that the only way to prevent or to meet a Soviet atomic attack is to build up U.S. air power with particular emphasis on a strong retaliatory force...
Four years after the war, white-haired, Roman-nosed Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, ailing and half blind, sat in the dock of a British military court in Hamburg, charged with 17 war crimes in Poland and Russia (more than any other general indicted by the Western Allies): condoning...
Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as...
The rest of the world's diplomats heartily dislike and healthily respect Vyacheslav Molotov. Alone of the top men in the Kremlin, he is familiar with lands and peoples beyond the control of the Red army. He alone has had to match the rigidities of Communist dogma with the...
Last week the nine "fiends"-and six others whose names had not been mentioned before-were taken from their cells, not for execution but for release as free men. "It has been established," said a communiqué from Deputy Premier Lavrenty Beria, "that the accused . . . were arrested . . . without any lawful...