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André Malraux is a mysterious fellow -a natural-born actor who saved his histrionics for real life, a novelist who fashioned his books out of the materials of history and wrote himself into most of them in roles he actually played. So multi-chaptered is his life, in fact, and so intermixed is it with the events of his times that no adequate accounting could be contained within one book. Accordingly, when it was announced that Malraux would write the first volume in a projected autobiographical series, it was possible to wonder just which Malraux the author liked best...
...some ways, politicians do this better than other losers, perhaps because they can plan ahead in multi-annual cycles. Nixon's switch from defeat to law to renomination is a case in point. In his years of political exile between the wars, Winston Churchill distracted himself from defeat by tapping a wide range of other interests: painting, bricklaying, authorship and breeding butterflies. At the same time, he never once doubted his capacity to lead the nation...
Future policies will be based on three principles: self-help, multi-lateral and regional responsibility and selective U. S. assistance. The emphasis must be on preventing situations from arising that necessitate unilateral involvements...
...should continue regional cooperation efforts such as the Alliance for Progress. We should avoid, where possible, unilateral involvement -- either military or economic -- where multi-lateral means are available. Greater reliance must be placed on the peace keeping functions of the United Nations...
...must increasingly channel our development aid through multi-lateral institutions such as the World Bank. To systematize and evaluate our foreign aid program we need such institutions as the Inter-American Committee of the Alliance for Progress to provide continuous review...