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...enactment would disasterously impair our influence over other freedom-loving peoples. If we leave aside military considerations, the best way to combat the spread of Communism in Western Europe and elsewhere is to give increased drawing-power to the great traditions of democracy and freedom. These war-torn countries want more than weapons, more than food and machinery. They are eager for ideals to strengthen the spirit and make life worth living ... Unless our acts show that we belive in our democratic ideals, we lesson the chance of winning wavering men to democracy...
There was an argument of sorts to be made for Louis Johnson. He had knocked heads together and brought actual unification into the strife-torn Department of Defense. His economy program had been strictly in line with the policy laid down by the President...
...ground behind the sea wall was literally torn apart. Dust still hung from the last rocket explosions and air and ground reeked with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...
...Motta is a sturdy fighter with an in & out record who currently holds the middleweight championship of the world. He won it on a fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...
Though he invariably writes with an air of great authority, Martin has pulled such bloomers as: "Among those who know Algernon Hiss . . ." Martin argues his views plausibly, sometimes brilliantly, but he is torn by constant doubt, often reflects the opinion of the last man to have his ear. Martin is no party liner, but since the magazine's unofficial policy board is made up of such anti-Communists as Labor M.P. Richard Grossman and such proCommunists as Alexander Werth (who is currently a Titoist). the editorial policy is as changeable as Martin. Said one British Socialist last week...