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...Ahead of her western Allies, Russia re-opened trade with Germany last week. German factories were getting Russian raw materials; half the products would go to shortage-ridden Russians, half would remain for shortage-ridden Germans...
Then, about 85 years ago, a few Americans set out to right the wrongs which a few Americans had done. Missionaries of a Boston society taught and toiled with the resentful, disease-ridden, impoverished Micronesians. Kusaie became a tropic paradise. It had no poverty or crime, almost no disease. It was a communal democracy-its village chiefs and the island king were elected by the people. Then in 1941 the Japanese sent the missionaries away...
...things that divide Russia from Great Britain could not be expressed in old terms of Empire alone. Bevin is not ridden by doctrines and dogmas, but he has a fierce hatred of Communism. He knows Communism inside out, for he has fought it and crushed it within Transport House. Last week, when Soviet President Kalinin denounced Europe's "reactionary Socialists" and their false devotion to democracy, Bevin knew that Kalinin put his name at the top of the list. Bevin understands that the gap between Russia and the West is really unbridgeable so long as Russia defines democracy...
Winston Churchill, last in Cuba as an impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...