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...know exactly when, but soon, soon. He is not invincible. We have plenty to work with. We have the record of this Congress, which put patriotism above partisanship in foreign policy so that he could effectuate the Democratic policy he's following. The Democratic Congress freed him from guys like McCarthy and Jenner. who had the executive branch in their hip pockets. We have the fact that his Administration has slipped on things like Dixon-Yates, Talbott, and so on. These facts are enough to work on. They're enough because they detract seriously from the very things...
...Enlightenment, with its faith in man's essential goodness, had been an age of hope: man freed from his chains was to progress irresistibly toward a better and better world. In the ruins left by World War II and all it taught of the evil in man, the Men of Reason became the Men of Despair. Cried Camus: "Confronted by Hitler's terror, what values did we have that could comfort us and which we could oppose to his negation? None. What was happening was coming from man himself. We could not deny it. We saw it confirmed...
...Freed when the retreating Germans did not take their prisoners with them, he went back to command a Resistance brigade in the Vosges mountains. When he asked a French regular army commander if there was anything his guerrillas could do in an impending attack on Dannemarie, the colonel said yes, could he find some young fellow to blow up the locomotive of a Nazi armored train stationed there. "I'll do it if you like," said Malraux...
Gravely, the President dealt with grave issues. He restated basic U.S. policy on the Soviet satellite states: until they are freed, "there could be no real peace." But he shrugged over a resolution, passed 367 to 0 by the House, urging their liberation. "How?" he asked. "You are certainly not going to declare war, are you?" On world disarmament, he said flatly: "It is going to be a very long and tortuous road." Disarmament always is, he added. "I have personally been studying it for 40 years." He termed last month's Bering Strait incident, the Soviet jet attack...
...fellow, and "receives with satisfaction" his announcement that he would like the "Cold War" to be changed to a "battle for peace." Included in Pravda's summary were the President's remarks that there can be no real peace in the world until the satellite nations are freed,* stranger still. Ike's comment, when he was asked about Bulganin, that it is a "puzzle . . . who is, or what is the dominating influence" in the Soviet government. Such thoughts have hitherto been considered too dangerous for Pravda's readers. One explanation: the Russian people also need reminding...