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...sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands of marigolds...
...bitterness of the Tory attack angered Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent who had, until then, been scrupulously careful not to criticize Britain publicly. He fired back the blunt charge that Britain, France and Israel had "taken the law into their own hands." Snapped St. Laurent: "The era when the supermen of Europe could govern the whole world is coming pretty close...
Appointed by Harry Truman as chief of the Marshall Plan special mission to Italy in 1948, with the rank of minister, he too started off by stepping on Italian toes with some blunt talk about the government's land-reform plans. Before he left in 1950, Italy had come to respect him as much as he respected Italy...
...Eden argued later that Britain had acted only on behalf of the U.N. But the U.N. protested the British action 64-5. Vice Admiral Pierre Barjot, deputy allied commander, was more blunt in acknowl edging the allies' true motive: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators," he declared in an order of the day, "at the moment when you were about to enter as conquerors of the principal city of the Suez Canal, a cease-fire was ordered. But your efforts and your courage have wiped out the affronts...
...often in O'Neill -have their value. The repetitions, for example, are in character, as coming from broken-willed people with a neurotic need for the solace or savagery of words. The plotlessness is the measure of their impotence. The play's language-merely straightforward and blunt, except where the self-dramatizing old actor and the word-conscious young writer empurple it -has in the theater far more trenchancy than the half-poetized prose so frequent in O'Neill. Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid...