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...Bounden Duty. M.P.s bombarded Churchill with searching questions in the House. "The future is veiled in obscurity," he replied to Laborite Willie Warbey. "I should not like to plunge too deeply into it this afternoon." His conduct implied, however, that Sir Winston at last had accepted the view that it is his bounden duty, to his country and his party, to let the younger man take over. Asked if he would urge a conference on Formosa, he deferred to his successor: "I doubt if anyone in the whole world has worked as hard as the Foreign Secretary to steer this...
...Comrade Thorez of France and Comrade Togliatti of Italy for restating for all to hear that their peoples would never fight against the Red army. In helping the Soviet Union, said Stalin, these leaders had naturally helped themselves, yet now that Communism is a "mighty force," it is the bounden duty of the Soviet Union to help them...
...which he opposes) and the invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt himself equally helpless even to enforce some of the explicit rules of the church, e.g., the "bounden duty" of every Episcopalian to attend services on Sunday. Says Kernan: "The laity may do almost anything they want . . . If you tell them that something's their bounden duty, they're liable to get sore...
...atmosphere greatly cleared by the Wallace squall, both President Truman and Premier Stalin stated that their countries do not wish war and that in their informed opinions, World War III is neither imminent nor inevitable. President Wriston's personal estimate may vary, but nevertheless, it would seem a bounden duty upon all citizens to cooperate in every way with the United Nations in its search for peace. Rifts between East and West may be resolved only through the mutual adjustments, agreements and conciliations afforded by a world organization. In 1919, this nation squandered its opportunity to strive for peace...
...Escape? After explaining that escape was cut off, he asked the merchants to let sweet reason prevail. After all, the teamsters had already organized the big chain grocers. By staying open at all hours and paying less wages, the independents were undercutting. It was the union's bounden duty, said Cowboy Hoffa, to remedy this inequity. The union had suffered too: only 150 union men were hauling goods from wholesaler to retailer as compared to a prewar total of 550. Was this fair to the returned veteran? Finally Hoffa held out a handful of alfalfa. Store owners would...