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Israelis we're too pleased that the world had seen them peacefully welcoming an Egyptian to care about the criticisms he made, e.g., of Arab poverty amidst Jewish productivity. In Washington John Foster Dulles announced that the whole episode made the U.S. Government "very happy," and London diplomats called it a hopeful augury for relaxing tension in the Middle East. The U.N. Palestine truce chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, announced that the two countries had finally accepted the U.N. plan to set up a dozen observation posts to strengthen the Israeli-Egyptian border ceasefire...
...weeks Western governments had known that the Russians were going to do it. Nikita Khrushchev had said as much to Harold Stassen, amidst the drinks and din of the party at Claridge's. But when the announcement came last week that the Soviet Union would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men by May 1957, the response of the West was confused, contradictory and uncertain...
...Amidst bustling all about the U.S. and the Caribbean area last year, blithe-spirited British Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward got homesick and visited Britain for eight weeks. High price of gratifying his nostalgia: $70,000, the amount that Britain's revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England...
...aristocracy viewed the events from the Charles River equivalent of a royal yacht. Passing from deck to deck amidst the ruins of a decayed knight-errantry, they exhorted and condemned at socially acceptable occasions...
...world otherwise ruled by gaiety and love. A small cat lurks in the background where young lovers sleep, peering like douanier Rousseau's tiger, an ominous and imposing reality. In another instance a group of cats prey like vultures around the form of a young girl who is sleeping amidst a bacchanalian dance in the forest. Mr. Berger saves his naive world by this grace. If one lives in a dream world there are also nightmares...