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...Britain's failure to prepare for war with Germany, Kennedy blamed such national leaders as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. But the British public, said Kennedy, was equally at fault: "I believe, as I have stated frequently, that leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... In 1930 and 1931 we blamed all the evils that this country was then suffering, from the drought to the World Depression, on Herbert Hoover. If we had continued to hold those beliefs, we would never...
Perhaps you can explain this-how can the U.S. sit on the sidelines when U.N. troops try to overthrow the only pro-Western sector of the Congo, now an independent state...
...crisis or in calm, the citizens of Berlin like to go to the opera, and they like to go in style. Since the war, though, the only suitable house in the city has been the ancient Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in the Eastern sector, and operagoing has been a mixed pleasure for people from the Western half of the city. But last week crisis-weary West Berliners finally had their way. The striking new $7,000,000 Deutsche Oper Berlin, four years in the building, was opened on the site of West Berlin's old Deutsches Opernhaus, which...
...there is need for governments to provide the basic facilities and services. To do this in adequate measures will strain their human and financial resources. It seems sensible, therefore, to give the greatest scope to private initiative and capital in all fields which are not necessarily in the public sector...
...take a reading-and to add confusion to the crisis. Rising in New Delhi's Parliament during a foreign policy debate last week, Nehru gratuitously declared that as far as he and his experts could make it out, the East Germans were legally justified in closing their sector frontier. Raising the question of Western access rights to Berlin, he suggested that the Russians had every right to cut them off, since they were based on a verbal agreement "secured by the Western powers . . . not as a right but as a concession from the Soviet authorities...