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Used as we are to soft talk from military men, we doubly welcome Admiral Radford’s recent remarks on war and peace. Freedom, he said, is worth “more than peace or wealth or life itself”; and, that being the case, not all war is bad or all peace good—particularly, he added, when we remember that peace often represents the triumph of “deception, chicanery and expediency” over the “morally right.”

In answer to a question about furnishing economic aid to the nations of Eastern Europe, Secretary of State Dulles bettered the previous Anglo-Saxon record for understatement: “As far as Hungary is concerned, there is not yet satisfactory evidence that those who profess to be the Government of Hungary in fact are responsive to the wishes and the desires of the people to a degree which would make it profitable for us to talk about such matters with them.”

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Used as we are to soft talk from military men, we doubly welcome Admiral Radford’s recent remarks on war and peace. Freedom, he said, is worth “more than peace or wealth or life itself”; and, that being the case, not all war is bad or all peace good—particularly, he added, when we remember that peace often represents the triumph of “deception, chicanery and expediency” over the “morally right.”

In answer to a question about furnishing economic aid to the nations of Eastern Europe, Secretary of State Dulles bettered the previous Anglo-Saxon record for understatement: “As far as Hungary is concerned, there is not yet satisfactory evidence that those who profess to be the Government of Hungary in fact are responsive to the wishes and the desires of the people to a degree which would make it profitable for us to talk about such matters with them.”