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...guide." Those who, after the President vetoed the gas control bill, said, "Now we know he is a candidate for reelection" have had their words flung back into their teeth. Dwight Eisenhower has again so refreshingly reminded us of the saying: Politicians look to the next election, statesmen to the next generation...
...statesmen arrived in a cloud of hopeful generalities. NATO must be transformed into "a more effective agency for consultation and cooperation," said Canada's "Mike" Pearson. John Foster Dulles talked of searching out ways of "advancing NATO from its initial place into the totality of its meaning...
...leading participants and the evidence of witnesses and victims, was able to circumvent this final act of Nazi nihilism. The 50 volumes of its proceedings (about 24,000 pages) are more painful reading than most can bear, even today, but in them, far more than in the memoirs of statesmen and generals or the official regimental histories and the reminiscences of Panzer generals, are embedded the true nature of Naziism and the cause of World War II. Of the many valuable historical works that have drawn on these sources in recent years the latest is Edward Crankshaw's Gestapo...
...While statesmen and would-be states men debated Communism's latest moves at the rooftop level of foreign policy last week, Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the subject right down to lock-jimmying level where it belongs. Speaking in Dallas to a meeting of the Inter-American Bar Association, Brownell said: "The primary objective of the Communist conspiracy today is to create the illusion that it is not a conspiracy. But every shred of available evidence shows that the conspiracy is conducting business as usual, if not on an intensified scale...
...Gentlemen," said the President of the U.S. at dinner with the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada, "since our meeting here is an informal one between friends, let us dispense with toasts, and instead drink to our countries." The statesmen touched glasses and murmured, "To our countries," while across the table their foreign ministers did the same. When the glasses were lowered, Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester...