UNITED NATION
The United Nations recently opened its fall session in New York and admitted three new countries. The 138 UN members certainly aren’t “united,” and many are so small…
Category: Foreign Policy
THE MAD STRATEGY
What does MAD mean to you? It might mean insane, it might mean angry. But if you were a nuclear strategist, it would be an acronym standing for…
RUNAWAY PLANTS
A recent letter to a metropolitan newspaper by Prank Eyles, executive secretary of the Midwest Industrial Union Council, calls attention to one of the prime causes of unemployment…
The Success Story Of Free China — August 1974
TAIWAN’S PROSPERITY
The most striking lesson in the world today between freedom and slavery, between prosperity and privation, is the contrast between free China on Taiwan and Red China on…
AID TO INDIA
The old adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” may be headed for the scrap heap. The big-spending liberals are finally becoming disillusioned with U.S. foreignaid…
NIXON AT YALTA
Well, President Nixon went to Yalta after all — despite the White House protestations that he would not. The Soviets insisted that Nixon go to Yalta, and it…
KUDIRKA’S MOTHER
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow recently issued an American passport to the 67-year old widowed mother of Simas Kudirka— that Lithuanian sailor who leaped from a Soviet fishing…
A NUCLEAR NAVY
A famous story about Napoleon relates that, after he had conquered the European Continent, a young American inventor named Robert Fulton obtained an interview with him. Fulton spread…
THE 31st STATE
In 1959, the United States admitted Alaska and Hawaii as the 49th and 50th states of the Union, thus overriding the sincere misgivings of some people who worried…