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Spokesman for the important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Tokyo, "or we can expect a resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports...
...foreign policy is, reputedly, one of grandeur, a reassertion of the historic role of France in world affairs. It is a simple compound, one part reality to five parts romantic memory of Napoleon and Louis XIV and four parts de Gaulle's concept of his personal destiny. In getting rid of the immobilism that characterized the Fourth Republic, de Gaulle and his government have picked up a generous share of political illusions, and chief among them is the grandeur upon which their diplomacy is based...
...course is set for the next five years. Women readers particularly have had a bellyful of politics." More could be expected of the Mirror in its effort to recapture its youthful appeal. But the question that remained wide open was whether the Daily Mirror, in trying to get rid of its middle-age spread, had not exchanged it for a case of second childhood...
...often, these two categories--intellectual achievement and moral character--are divided from one another as if they were not only separate but also mutually exclusive. As students, we are taught to rid ourselves of biases in studying history, and to consider art as above and removed from morality. What is not so often stressed is the necessity, and desirability, of moral judgements in history, or the fact that criticism of a work of art is itself a moral action. The whole academic world is involved with morality, but the distinction between "objective" investigation and "subjective" judgment can at times serve...
Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...