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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...fading chimera of colonialism, these disparate groupings invariably vote together in the U.N. But on major noncolonial issues, such as Hungary, Tibet and the reunification of Korea, they almost always split. In the annual hassle over admission of Red China to the U.N., the Afro-Asians in the past two General Assembly sessions have divided three ways: 13 or 14 nations for admission, eleven opposed and four abstaining...
...time past, many people, from John Foster Dulles to Nikita Khrushchev, have been inclined to assume that neutralism was the next thing to Communism. In fact, the neutralists are united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans...
...confederation of sovereign states whose premiers would hammer out common policy at regular meetings. "A Europe of fatherlands" is the way he sees it. To nearly all the advocates of European unity, this simply seemed a discouraging step backward toward the old-fashioned ententes and alliances of the past...
...scares in the past did not start by themselves. And a peace scare started by Eastland and Dodd at this stage in the disarmament debate might well be an overture to tragedy. Our world, unlike Woodrow Wilson's, depends for its existence on the dangerous assumption that men will act in good faith...