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...first, Warsaw's Jews regard the Nazis as merely another crew of history's anti-Semites, to be endured, bargained with, and outlasted. Only as they are walled in and wiped out, block by block, do the Jews awaken to the full horror of their fate. Some drag their own screaming relatives to the death trains to buy another day of life-in-death. Others, like Andrei Androfski, opt to sally out of bunkers like Mila 18 and salvage pride and honor in the suicidal, 42-day ghetto uprising that ranks in the legends of heroism...
...chief aims of the churchmen who prepared it. In 1951, Dr. C. H. Dodd, General Director of the whole project, as well as convener of the panel of New Testament translators, promised that the New English Bible "is to be genuinely English in idiom, such as will not awaken a sense of strangeness or remoteness." In the same manner, the Introduction, published with the New Bible, announces that the language of the text is "the current speech of our own time...
...states were pushing up like exotic flowers from the jungles and savannas, from the cloud-rimmed mountains and sandy wastes of the last continent to awaken politically. Despite the daily shedding of blood from the Mediterranean littoral to the Cape of Good Hope, independence has come quietly and with peace to most of Africa's 240 million. If Algeria is at last on the way to peace, only the Congo currently remains as a running sore...
George Frost Kennan, 56-will go to Belgrade as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952) and longtime student of Communism and Russia, Kennan singlehanded did much to awaken the U.S. to the dangers of postwar Soviet imperialism, authored the Truman Administration's "containment" policy. Careerist Kennan was shunted into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean...
...U.S.A.F. personnel are psychoneurotic, involved in sexual ercesses, drug taking . . ." A quick follow-up came from the Soviet embassy in London in the form of a letter purporting to be from a U.S.A.F. pilot who threatened to drop an A-bomb in the North Sea in order to awaken Britain to the dangers of having atom-armed U.S. planes patrolling in British skies. Despite quick exposure for what they were, the forgeries nonetheless created in some minds a picture of the U.S. as irresponsibly indifferent to the safety of its allies, fired the zeal of British and Japanese...