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...delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...
...maritime might of France had been destroyed in the egalitarian fury of the Revolution, when brilliant naval officers, no matter how patriotic, were guillotined merely because they were of noble birth. And egalitarianism (as any latterday weekend yachtsman knows) does not work afloat. Worse yet, Napoleon had no understanding of sea power-let alone naval strategy and tactics. He frayed the already frazzled nerves of his naval commander in chief, the vacillating Villeneuve, with whimsically changing orders. For two years his captains were reduced to an exasperating game of maritime hide-and-seek until Horatio Viscount Nelson, Vice Admiral...
...federal-state problems? Replied Wayne Morse: No, nothing could come of such a meeting. Undaunted, Hatfield went ahead and held his own man-to-man conferences. Last week he worked around to the other half of the Morseberger senatorial team, Morse's onetime protégé and latterday whipping boy, Senator Richard Neuberger. Together Neuberger and Hatfield sat down for tea and a chat that left Wayne Morse frothing with anger...
...Clancy, in notably parallel views, attack the extremists on either side of the running church-and-state debate. Clancy asserts that the all-out "separationists" are really a minority, and just as dogmatic in their way as the dogmatic churches they oppose. Cohen refers to the same group as "latterday Jacobins." Instead of regarding the secular as the neutral arena where conflicts of principle may be fought out, he says, the Jacobins have turned secularism into a weapon...
President Eliot's cautious humanism was not so unrealistic, says Bartley, as the "latterday optimism" of President Pusey, which expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems.' " Harvard is in a worse way, says Bartley, since "it has become forward to look backward and to call perverse those dry and analytical philosophers who deflate the wind bags of our time instead of blowing up more themselves...