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...modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House of Commons (before it adjourns July 30) that Lloyd persuaded his colleagues to forget their threats and return to the bargaining table...
...first of the ten movements is a prayer for eternal peace, full of heartfelt sighs and dazzling sunbursts. The second (Dies Irae) begins with an insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass...
Died. Paul W. Shafer, 61, since 1937 a Republican Congressman from Michigan's traditionally conservative Third District; of a liver ailment; in Washington. A onetime newspaperman, Shafer learned his law from correspondence school, became known in the House for bluntly spoken opinion. He demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped...
...Communists] than to raise false hopes and mislead the people of the world into believing that there is agreement when there is none." In the face of this united front, Molotov and Chou En-lai got their signals crossed. Chou, raging, had blamed the U.S. alone for the impending breakoff...
...clear," Molotov fumed, "that the 16 had a clear-cut goal-to support and prolong the anti-nationalist, rotten, semi-fascist Syngman Rhee regime." If Communist lamentations are a sign of success, then the Korean breakoff was a success for the West. In the far-off town of Chinhae, South Korea, where he was attending an anti-Communist conference ("Asia for the free Asians"), old Syngman Rhee tilted his intricately sculptured face away from the sun, and smiled at the news from Geneva. "I do not wish," he said to newsmen, "to appear as saying I told...