FOREIGN RELATIONS: Across the Board

State Department nerves were strung fiddle-tight all last week. The U.S. was deeply and inextricably involved on a half-dozen diplomatic fronts halfway around the world. Great decisions had to be made in affairs which were at once extraordinarily delicate and momentous.

The news was that the decisions were being made. The realities of the war, the expediencies of pressing need and of passing time, dictated those decisions. The State Department was anxious, and the U.S. people would be anxious, too, if & when they fully understood the gravity of the problems and...

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