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...latest such distinguished visitor was Burma's mild, shrewd little Premier U Nu. Mao Tse-tung's China gave him the regular bear-hug welcome, and was aggrieved to find its guest full of gentle remonstrances...
...would be impossible for a sane man to attack President Eisenhower for being soft to Communism. The inescapable conclusion must be that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy is deranged-the end of the trail for a mind that could once have been considered shrewd and alert. We are, of course, shocked that such an intemperate attack could be made by a member of the United States Senate. But it does not greatly surprise us that McCarthy made the attack. His case history shows a steady deterioration of reason...
...years ago Agatha Christie produced a play, The Suspects, which never got past Tremont Street on the road to New York. Like the shrewd inspectors who dot her novels, however, Miss Christie is not so easily foiled by one failure. In her latest mystery, Witness for the Prosecution, she again tries to solve the riddle of how to write a good play, and if in the end the prize escapes her, she has at least managed a substantial improvement in technique...
...unusual for the old squire in the big house up on the hill to sell them off for a spot of ready cash. The 27 titles up for sale last week were part of a collection bought purely as investments in the 19th century by a shrewd old Essex solicitor named Joseph Beaumont...
...because of the easing in European tension points. If the end of the Korean and Indochina wars doesn't justify equalizing the restriction lists, the continued injury to America's overall policy does. The inequality of the trading requirements has a disadvantage greater than the profitable ventures of the shrewd dealers behind the Curtain. It also makes Communist China more dependent on Eastern Europe for necessary goods. Until Congress can decide on a consistent program, the Kremlin will continue to weld Eastern Europe to Red China with economic solder provided by the United States...