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...waged the cold war in those terms. "The arena is vast," he wrote in his book, War or Peace. "It embraces the whole world, and all political, military, economic and spiritual forces within it." And as he handled the unending procession of Communist-made crises-Korea, Indo-China, Formosa Strait, Iran, Guatemala, Jordan, Lebanon, Quemoy, Berlin-he threw into the cold struggle all of freedom's political, military, economic, spiritual strength. Specifically...
...East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side. Red China shifted thousands of troops from the North China-Korea theater to the newly threatened coast...
When, in early 1955, the Communists launched concerted attacks against Chinese Nationalist positions up and down the Formosa Strait, Dulles took it as a crucial probe of U.S. intentions. His response was immediate and unmistakable. The President sought and got a congressional resolution of support for U.S. defense of Formosa and the Pescadores; the President followed that up with a personal letter to Nationalist China's Chiang promising support at islands Quemoy and Matsu. Result: the Communists backed off, and the whole Red China offensive, rolling ever since Mao Tse-tung came out of the Yenan caves, was bogged...
Broadway these days seems a strait-laced street, solemn with young Method actors mooning over Chekhov and Freud, censored by Actors Equity, censured by critics. Little is heard to compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly...
...poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small boy Travis (Glynn Turman), whose main problem is to be first...