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Longtime Careerist George Kennan, whose tough talk made him persona non grata to the Kremlin and whose "containment" policies made him persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...
...capsule containing a man but that the capsule had failed to separate from its rocket, roasting the astronaut alive. By Ghali's account (TIME, Dec. 19), it was this failure, not the "airplane accident" reported by Moscow, that accounted for the death last October of Soviet Missile Chief Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin: when Khrushchev returned from New York, he berated Nedelin so severely that the marshal committed suicide...
...last week De Gaulle made his stand clear in a speech eulogizing his old comrade in arms, the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny. Said De Gaulle: "How often-I well know it!-the orders given to De Lattre upset his proud personality. But he never failed to carry out the orders received, not only with discipline, but adding to them the wellspring of his faith." For today's France, at any rate, the lesson was clear: De Gaulle expects every man to do his duty-and obey orders...
...place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain and set up the Free French forces...
...effort to show the world that he was a Communist with a difference, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito always let a few disgruntled critics of his regime run loose for the sake of appearances. He was particularly magnanimous about the idiosyncrasies of his fiery comrade in arms, Milovan Djilas, Vice President and head of Parliament, who talked of decentralizing the government and letting the state wither away. But Djilas began to be more and more critical. Tito drew the line in 1954 when Djilas, writing in the party paper, demanded more democracy and free discussion. The party Central Committee stripped...