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...change your policy, partake in the government. . .help nationalize our armies and realize constitutional China . . . put an end to chaos. Once you join the government, if you wish General Ho Lung [veteran Communist commander] or anyone else to assume my command, I would welcome and assist him. With your assent I myself would serve under him obediently and loyally. A peaceful, united and democratic China is not only the need of our people but the hope of America and Russia. It would win the sympathy of all the world. You have to choose...
...unexpected humor, unfaltering analytical acuity, a beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...
Gibbs, having taken another bite of pompano, suddenly chokes, his head nodding up and down, as if in assent. Doe thanks Gibbs happily, rushes out, taxis to TIME & LIFE Bldg., writes article, makes it just before deadline...
...Quid vobis videtur?" ("What do you think?") inquired the Pope. The Princes of the Church stood up, removed their red skullcaps, bowed in assent. The papal proposal was not a surprise to them: the Pope's intentions had been announced to all the world two months...
...government must sign a mutual assistance pact with Chungking similar to the one it had signed with Moscow. He conceded that Korea should be independent. But T.V. could not agree to special political status for Russia in Sinkiang, which would jeopardize China's sovereign rights. Nor could he assent to naval or air bases for Russia in Manchuria. As to China's democratization, Chungking had long striven for it and for an understanding with Yenan. The Russians felt that a durable accord between Moscow and Chungking must be preceded by peace between Generalissimo Chiang's Government...