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Malik, while denouncing Western warmongers, did his dogged best repeating Soviet Russia's familiar contention that the West, not the peace-loving Communists, is driving the world to the brink of war. Said he: "The ruling circles in the United States, the United Kingdom and France are endeavoring to convince their peoples that... to maintain peace, it is necessary ... to create a so-called 'position of strength'... The policy ... contains within itself the seeds of a new world war. The North Atlantic Military Alliance ... is directed against the U.S.S.R...
...England had orders to seize no Spanish military posts. He ignored orders, stormed the forts of St. Marks and Pensacola, and for good measure twisted the British lion's tail by executing two British subjects who were aiding the Indians. For a time, the U.S. tottered on the brink of war, and Monroe's Cabinet said Jackson had "committed war upon Spain . . . which, if not disavowed," would ruin the Administration. Jackson's actions were popular with the country and with history, and when Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. a year later, he was even more firmly...
...asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor; a few minutes later Dickie was being rushed...
...PAUL BRINK Palo Alto, Calif...
...rather than at negotiated sale, Medina broke in sharply. What was wrong with that? he asked. What Stebbins was saying, said Medina, was that if you don't agree with the Government you ought "to keep your mouths shut ... It seems to me ... we are right on the brink of some form of totalitarianism...