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• Reading the Nation the other day our hair suddenly stood on end—we were seven-eighths through a sentence in the editorial section and verily it looked as though the Nation had gone McCarthyite! “That the Soviet Union is to he feared by the United States is perfectly true,” said the incompleted sentence. And then? And then the sentence ended, reviving our faith in the natural order: “and vice versa.”

• national review remains in John Foster Dulles’ corner, and keeps on believing that his critics dislike him for precisely the wrong reason (namely, that he is too anti-Communist, rather than, as we sometimes fear, not quite anti-Communist enough). But for Mr. Dulles’ frequent reminders, the nation would probably lose sight of the fact that the Soviet Union is not only our opponent in a cold war, but the enemy in a highly probable future hot one. His speech at the opening of the current Seato Conference is an example of the kind of performance the United States cannot today do without. The Communists, he noted, are concentrating their propaganda fire precisely on Seato, and the reason they do so is precisely that Seato stands in the way of their aggressive plans concerning Southeast Asia, so that Seato must be maintained at all costs. Which we already knew, and you already knew, but some people (whom we could mention) clearly don’t know.

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• Reading the Nation the other day our hair suddenly stood on end—we were seven-eighths through a sentence in the editorial section and verily it looked as though the Nation had gone McCarthyite! “That the Soviet Union is to he feared by the United States is perfectly true,” said the incompleted sentence. And then? And then the sentence ended, reviving our faith in the natural order: “and vice versa.”

• national review remains in John Foster Dulles’ corner, and keeps on believing that his critics dislike him for precisely the wrong reason (namely, that he is too anti-Communist, rather than, as we sometimes fear, not quite anti-Communist enough). But for Mr. Dulles’ frequent reminders, the nation would probably lose sight of the fact that the Soviet Union is not only our opponent in a cold war, but the enemy in a highly probable future hot one. His speech at the opening of the current Seato Conference is an example of the kind of performance the United States cannot today do without. The Communists, he noted, are concentrating their propaganda fire precisely on Seato, and the reason they do so is precisely that Seato stands in the way of their aggressive plans concerning Southeast Asia, so that Seato must be maintained at all costs. Which we already knew, and you already knew, but some people (whom we could mention) clearly don’t know.