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...hours, retreated gloomily from the scene, his climactic effort a failure. Almost with relief, French politicians grasped at one more chance for delay, put off a vote until this week. In the end the Assembly was expected to approve EDC-in principle-but the parliamentary eagerness to avert decision was at least as eloquent as any vote would...
Both to help deter aggression and to help avert defeat, Seitz calls for "a defensive net." But he warns that the nation must also be ready to strike with "the most fearsome of our weapons." In discussing the morality of employing atomic or thermonuclear weapons, Seitz indulges in none of the hand-wringing that scientists often display in the pages of the Bulletin. It would be immoral, he says, "not to restrain Soviet aggression by any means which will be effective...
...Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
Sitting near the 45-voice choir, staring modestly down at the grass when speakers praised him, was Dr. Luther Wesley Smith, 56, executive secretary of the American Baptist Assembly. Dr. Smith had many occasions to avert his eyes, for in last week's celebration the Baptists at Green Lake were honoring...
...against my will," he became Ambassador to Ankara, hoping "to do what I could to avert" a general war. Four months later, Hitler pressed the plunger for World War II. He "grossly misled me again," complains Von Papen. But he stayed at his post anyway "to limit the conflict," i.e., to keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested...