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Despite all misgivings, the U.S. still stands behind Diem for a simple reason that he himself spelled out in a blunt warning last week: "For a moment, imagine that another government replaces this one: it could not help resulting in civil war and dreadful dictatorship." Washington has considered alternatives to Diem, but fears that the confusion of a coup could only benefit the Viet Cong and might end up with a regime no better than the present one. Thus U.S. Ambassador Frederick Nolting, who is soon to be replaced by Henry Cabot Lodge, returned to Saigon from Washington consultations last...
...Barmen declaration was a blunt answer to a crude attempt at conquest. Since the East German Communists' strategy seems aimed at taming the churches rather than openly destroying them, the Weissensee declaration carefully specifies situations in which Christians must resist totalitarianism. They fail their responsibility, the Weissensee declaration points out, if they "remain silent about the sins of our times." The churches are equally unfaithful to their calling if they submit "to the absolute claim of an ideology" or agree to an atheist morality "in which man without God is made the goal of education and culture." The declaration...
Alicia really preferred her father's flamboyant company, learned to fly airplanes with him, stood fascinated at his side as he built the country's biggest paper, New York City's blunt and breezy Daily News. She even put in stints at reporting for Daddy's paper. But Captain Joe winced at her work, and after involving the paper in a libel suit, she finally quit. Turning to other adventure she hunted in Asia, fly-fished in Norway, piloted her own plane around Europe. Twice divorced from husbands of her father's choice, Alicia married...
...that he wanted an ambassadorship.* Lodge, who saw World War II action as deputy chief of staff of the IV Army Corps in Italy, is keenly interested in the ticklish problems of guerrilla warfare against the Communist Viet Cong. In Lodge, the President gets a New Englander who speaks blunt English and fluent French, the language of the South Vietnamese leaders, and can be expected to use both effectively whether smoothing U.S. relations with President Ngo Dinh Diem or prodding Diem's reluctant government into some political and financial reform. Along with a good man for the job, Kennedy...
...honor"), an innocent blonde Walkyrie serving as maid of honor to a princess in an idyllic summer court. No fleshly triumph teases him. That would be too easy. What he is after instead is a blush. And a special kind of blush at that. No rosiness such as some blunt, simple-minded fellow might force to her cheeks. "No," writes Cazotte to his patroness, "her blood is to rise, in pride and amour-propre ... in full, triumphant consent to her own perdition." A creature of honor, she will be destroyed, though outwardly intact, by inner recognition that she has desired...