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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Helping Hand. For the third sector of Asia-the uneasy non-Communist nations of Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan-Acheson had cold words and measured promises: "The direct responsibility lies with the peoples concerned . . . You cannot sit around in Washington or London or Paris or The Hague and determine what the policies are going to be in those areas." The U.S. would offer aid-generally along the lines of the careful yardstick set down recently by State's Counselor George Kennan...
Under the Oak Tree. At war's end Hap Arnold turned over his command to General Carl Spaatz with a laconic, "Take it, Tooey, it's all yours." He added defiantly: "I'm going out to my ranch in the Valley of the Moon to sit under an oak tree. From there I'll look across the valley at the white-faced cattle. And if one of them even moves too fast, I'll look the other...
...Tsiang, was in the Security Council chair because it was his month, by rotation, to preside. He recognized the Soviet delegate, Jacob A. Malik. Delegate Malik did not return the compliment: he said he did not recognize Dr. Tsiang's right to preside or even to sit at the Council table. Dr. Tsiang, as a Chinese Nationalist, was just a "person who represents nobody," said Malik...
...negativism, Jessup responded by taking the Koreans to task for failing to achieve certain U.S.-sponsored reforms, e.g., the stabilization of Korea's tottering monetary system. Said he: "The problems of the Far East certainly will not be settled if you and other Far East nations sit back and hope the United States will cope with the situation alone." It was hardly a contribution to a new U.S. Asia policy...
...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...