How to Deal with Africa

If Stevenson’s massive foreign policy report to Mr. Kennedy is on an intellectual par with these thoughts on Africa—Caveat Emptor!

Mr. Adlai Stevenson’s notions about Africa, published in Harper’s (May 1960), command some attention. For Mr. Stevenson is probably the only practicing big-time politician who commands the genuine admiration, respect and support of the leftists who control the education of our children and spread the social doctrines that are sapping the foundations of our society. The Stevenson doctrines are, therefore, certain eventually to gain recognition, irrespective of his immediate political fortunes. Finally, having made his way among hard-nosed politicians and elegant intellectuals alike, as a combination of politician and classicist, he is the archetypal practical idealist: a man whose carefully reasoned philosophies are, we are urged to believe, a distillate of Western classical learning; a man who sets his eye upon the “realities” while he plants his feet on the foundations of Western morality. In short, Mr. Stevenson is no flyweight; he should articulate as tight and responsible a case as can be found anywhere in the Liberal wing.

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If Stevenson’s massive foreign policy report to Mr. Kennedy is on an intellectual par with these thoughts on Africa—Caveat Emptor!

Mr. Adlai Stevenson’s notions about Africa, published in Harper’s (May 1960), command some attention. For Mr. Stevenson is probably the only practicing big-time politician who commands the genuine admiration, respect and support of the leftists who control the education of our children and spread the social doctrines that are sapping the foundations of our society. The Stevenson doctrines are, therefore, certain eventually to gain recognition, irrespective of his immediate political fortunes. Finally, having made his way among hard-nosed politicians and elegant intellectuals alike, as a combination of politician and classicist, he is the archetypal practical idealist: a man whose carefully reasoned philosophies are, we are urged to believe, a distillate of Western classical learning; a man who sets his eye upon the “realities” while he plants his feet on the foundations of Western morality. In short, Mr. Stevenson is no flyweight; he should articulate as tight and responsible a case as can be found anywhere in the Liberal wing.