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Plainly, this was one more move in the Communist gambit to force the West to deal with satellite East Germany as a sovereign nation. Britain, France and the U.S. got off blunt protests to Soviet Ambassador Georgy Pushkin, announcing that they would continue to hold Russia responsible "for the welfare and proper treatment" of all their citizens in the Soviet sector of Berlin. U.S. Ambassador James B. Conant went further. He hurried to Berlin, defiantly drove through the heart of East Berlin with U.S. and ambassadorial flags flying. "We will remain in Berlin until Germany has been unified," announced Conant...
...time, said Pakistan's Chaudhri Mohammed AH, that "the observer made some observations." Iran's Hussein Ala was more blunt: "We would warmly welcome the early accession of the U.S." For the U.S., unwilling to join a pact with a country (Iraq) which is still officially at war with Israel, Gallman could only reaffirm the U.S.'s continued encouragement and support...
...horrors of a nuclear war prompt Acheson to criticize sharply Dulles' policy of massive retaliation, which could have resulted in a "fatal miscalculation." He feels that nothing would reassure U. S. allies more than a blunt statement that this country will use nuclear weapons only if a "desperate death struggle" is forced upon us by a surprise atomic attack...
...avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known in this city could for so long occupy important...
...making better sense: "He's up for a court-martial. He crashed on his motorbike, and he wasn't wearing his steel helmet." One man clucks over his buddy's baby picture as they drive a lorry-load of Jews to a crematorium. Irony is a blunt instrument in Author