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...Formosa or Germany, to gain a Communist signature on a scrap of paper. He proposes to operate from a position of strength, in cooperation with other nations of the free world. "Only strength can cooperate," he told a New Hampshire crowd last week. "Weakness cannot cooperate; it can only beg...
When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...
...reaction took several forms. After ten years of stalling, the Soviet Union finally signed a peace treaty for Austria, agreeing to long-resisted clauses in return for Austrian neutrality. At the same time, with noticeable urgency, the Kremlin arranged a top-level mission to Yugoslavia, a pilgrimage to beg Marshal Tito to take a neutral position...
...wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation. I cannot contravene the law. Scelba...
...Malenkov or, as far as I can remember from the war years, any of your political colleagues . . . Would it appeal to you ... if we met in a friendly fashion, without agendas, for the sole purpose of trying to find a sensible way of living side by side? I beg to be informed about what you and your friends think about it." Molotov replied: "We think such a friendly contact could help." But first Geneva, then the Paris accords, intervened. The proposal petered...