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...well-tailored Swede, representing the collective conscience of the United Nations, wrestled with the masters of China for the liberties of eleven U.S. airmen, jailed by the Communists as "spies." To some, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission was a humiliation: traveling halfway around the world to beg justice for innocent men. But in eleven U.S. cities, from Redding, Calif. (the home of 22-year-old Air Gunner Daniel Schmidt) to Lewisburg, Pa. (the home of Pilot William H. Baumer), the families of the airmen thought only of the chance that, perhaps, he might succeed...
Some think of others. Said Queen Marie Antoinette, after she stepped by accident on her executioner's foot: "Monsieur, I beg your pardon." "Let not poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere...
...have been defeated by the United Nations," cried Indonesia's President Soekarno, "but we do not have to beg from them. If we are to get Irian,* we must have power, power, power and more power." More significant than anything Soekarno had to say to the Nationalists last week was the eloquent fact of his presence. It was the first time in Indonesia's five years as a republic that the President has appeared at any party convention. He has always told Indonesians wherever he went: "Brothers, I am above such things as party politics. I am your...
...good. I'll think it over and I may come back some night and I'll-' Wait a minute! You can't come to Christ any time you want to. You can only come when the Spirit of God is drawing and wooing you ... I beg of you to come now before it is too late. You know you need...
...beg your pardon...