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From the U.S. embassy in Chungking came a series of reports and recommendations which sounded fantastically gullible when set against today's knowledge of Communist General Mao's fealty to Moscow. Arms must be given to the Red forces, it was urged, "to hold the Communists to our side instead of throwing them into the arms of the Soviet Union." Another Foreign Service officer hailed the Communist revolution as "moderate and democratic," giving the people "democratic self-government, political consciousness and a sense of their rights." As far back as 1944 one embassy report flatly declared the Communists...
...Formerly a parish was a community with interests common to all," he wrote. "Attendance at church Sunday by Sunday was maybe, to a certain extent, conventional, but at least it brought those who came to worship into a 'real' fellowship. Nowadays, it is the screaming fellowship of the motor-coach trip, the beer-blown friendship of the jug and bottle, the oily fellowship of the fish-&-chip saloon, the sandy-pebbly fellowship of the trippers on the beaches on Sundays, the near-naked-truth fellowship of those who go down to the sea in slips...
...again. For weeks, U.S. distillers, who had already trimmed a few prices here & there, had been eyeing each other nervously to see which would be the first to cut some more. They knew that in July the first batch of postwar whisky, 68 million gallons laid down in 1945, came of age. Last week, the new price cuts finally came. Two of Kentucky's leading distillers, Brown-Forman and Glenmore, announced retail cuts of 50? to 65? a fifth on five brands of non-bonded straight whiskies...
...Faolain (pronounced O'Fay-lawn), a great test of the Irish came in the Middle Ages when Ireland tried to graft monastic learning on to the old Celtic sense of the supernatural. For a while Ireland seemed to be evolving a great world culture-what Arnold Toynbee has called the "abortive western Celtic civilization." The new culture languished (because, O'Faolain makes plain, the Irish Celts were and always have been recalcitrant to the point of laziness), though the wild memory of it persisted, caught in such songs as Yeats...
Failure of a Mission. History has presented the bloody Cesare as diabolical, dazzling and colorful. Author Balchin makes him look like an austere combination of Sir Stafford Cripps and Cesare's own calloused admirer, the scholarly Niccolo Machiavelli. Cesare's fall came when Julius II, a deadly enemy of the Borgias, became Pope. Cesare wound up in Spain, where he was killed in battle...