Word: cannot
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...rebellion of the voters in Russia's Eastern Zone was a welcome and unexpected bonus. "I think perhaps we have a better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering of the international temperature. To accept these fluctuations as a guide for our policy would be to put in foreign hands a large measure of control over the conduct of our foreign relations...
...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...total of 1,200 injured, the strikers still held some of the West sector stations, but the Red railway administration, which by then had run in hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal of the Red railway police. Cried...
...serious dangers in the "anti-Communist crusade" is its potential effect on teaching. This cannot be measured in dismissals alone, for the young men blackballed by college administrations under pressure will be the greatest loss to education. There may also be teachers in all ranks who will choose to leave their universities, if not teaching itself, because of injustices done those of their colleagues attacked or dismissed...
Y.P.A. said it had put out its pamphlet in defiance of the rule, which it branded "prior censorship." Dean James Peace stated that leaflet material must not contain facts that cannot be substantiated, poor English or obscene language, opinion labelled as fact, or libel. "This does not constitute prior censorship," he said. The suspension has been lifted...