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...sided inspection of the stresses in the imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...
...Harvard Liberal Union reaffirmed its status as an autonomous political organization last night by narrowly defeating a move to bind its future actions to the policy decisions of the state A.D.A...
...most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted look of ordinary illustration...
...Delicate Situation." The ministers were unconvinced. Mendès insisted that his version of the treaty would still achieve the four basic aims of EDC: to bind Germany to the West, to arm the Germans in Western defense, to strengthen the government of Dr. Adenauer and to prepare the way for European political union. But what the Frenchman failed to see was that the "European" clauses of EDC, which one of his advisers defined as "mystique" were to the other ministers the heart and soul of the treaty. Mendès confronted the conference with what he felt...
...neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric and a mini...