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Secretary of State Acheson almost got rid of it last January when he stopped American aid to Chiang. It looked for a time as if we might manage to patch up our Asia policy with Point Four aid and other positive measures, and escape the worst consequences of our Chinese bungle...
...quickly as possible, Acheson got rid of the hot potato once more, this time throwing it to the United Nations. But he didn't get rid of it entirely--America is a member of the U.N. and is therefore still part-owner of the same old potato...
...books have sold about 375,000 copies in all editions. Does that mean that he must be damned as a second-rate one? Says Frost philosophically: "Who knows what will survive? The limit of my ambition is to lodge a few pebbles where they will be hard to get rid...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...
...turn into good little boys. Said he: "It is but 33 years since the overthrow of the Czarist regime in Russia. This is a short time in history. Like many other social and political movements before it, the Soviet Revolution may change. In so doing, it may rid itself of the policies which now prevent the Soviet Union from living as a good neighbor with the rest of the world...