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Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...
Huffed plump Sir Alexander Maxwell, leader of Britain's tourist drive: "I trust Miss Young will have the good sense to retract. . . . There is not an atom of truth in any of her statements...
...Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
...themselves with flaunting their own fragile tatters of personal experience, and the abstractionists who take refuge in a pseudo-scientific picture of life as a composition of light rays and whirling particles-necessarily hide their gifts at Christmas. The only truth that many of them recognize is in the atom, which gives off not radiance but radioactivity...
Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...