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Asia, is faced with steering the lifeboats and supervising the disaster teams. The Moslem world, frantic to shake off oppression and poverty that it ascribes solely (and not altogether correctly) to Western exploitation, has frequently responded with a fanatical and irresponsible nationalism. That way is apt to lead to continued poverty, chaos and neutralism at the least, to ultimate capture by Communism at the worst...
Robert "Pepper" Martin and John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, both disagreed with Brewster's proposal. "MacArthur would be a bad appointment," said Martin, "because he could not shake his psychological and emotional background of five years as virtual dictator of Japan...
...Shake Hands? A friend's chauffeur gave him one clue to the answer. After driving Stern from New York to Washington, the chauffeur impulsively shot out his hand for a shake, smiled and said he was "pleased to make my acquaintance." Anywhere in class-conscious Europe, the handshake would have been a terrible gaffe for both of them. Another "new American" told Stern how astonished he had been "when an old workman in a factory patted the president of the company on the back, called him by his first name and offered him a cigar." To German-born Stern...
...Buckley, Jr., Yale '50, expected to start an academic revolution at his alma matter with his book, "God and Man at Yale," he'll probably be disappointed. Except for six features by faculty and a series of editorials in the Yale Daily News, all of which tried to shake the Buckley thesis out of kilter, nobody in New Haven has reacted. Certainly no attempt to reform Yale to "proper" conservatism along Buckley lines has gotten rolling yet. Buckley blames much of the lamentable liberality of Yale on her alumni whom he feels should watch her. He timed the publication...
...December 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson told a TIME correspondent: "What we must do now is shake loose from the Chinese Nationalists. It will be harder to make that necessary break with them if we go to Formosa." On the same day, another high State Department source told the same correspondent: "Acheson has been steadily arguing with Truman to go along on an early recognition of Communist China. Just before Truman left for Key West, Acheson got him to admit the logic of early recognition. Truman said that Acheson had made a forceful case. The trouble...