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Soon after Ike's talk about neutralism hit the news wires, the State Department began to get anxious calls from some of its best friends in Embassy Row. While Ike's off-the-cuff slip about alliances' was explainable, it was obvious that some U.S. allies were shaken by what seemed a new, friendly emphasis on neutralism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rushed to set things right in a speech delivered at Iowa State College...
...Indeed it is painful for me to have to write you a letter of such content," said Phillips, who feared that Yugoslavia might "slip back into the evil paths." He added, "This is none of my business ... I am only concerned with the human side of the administration, and I still hope that, in your relations with individuals, you can show to the world the basic superiority of a socialist social system...
...lower party echelons. Last week the Polish provincial Communist newspaper Glos Koszalinski wanted to know who was going to be held responsible for killing Communists now that members of the wartime Polish Free (underground) Army are being pardoned by Warsaw. In making its point, Glos Koszalinski let slip a figure never previously acknowledged by the Communists: since World War II, some 30,000 armed Communist guards have been killed by the Polish Resistance...
...bottom two doubles teams split their matches, leaving the varsity with a 7-6 edge. However, Junta and Harris were having trouble with Farrin and Sofield, and it appeared that Harvard might let the Big Three crown slip out of its grasp...
...famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg to board the Columbine. Two hours later, precinct politics attended to, Ike was at his White House desk prepared to tackle politics at the national level...