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Agree & Blast. At 70. colorless Clem Attlee is probably the most astute theorist-politician in Britain. He knows how to conquer by conceding, how to learn from the other fellow. Sensing the wide appeal of Churchill's demand for a Big Four conference, Attlee has made political capital by 1) agreeing with it, 2) blasting the Tory government for letting the U.S. State Department calm Sir Winston down. Last week Attlee was busy with an even cleverer move: to reunite the feuding Labor Party and cut "Nye" Bevan down to size by taking over the Bevanite program and making...
...world William Holden, who lures her into his apartment. Socialite David Niven enters to aid in the seduction. And though no more dissolute and jaded a rake could be found east of Fifth Avenue, Miss McNamara remains secure in her faith that feminine right will conquer masculine might. By the end of the film, the rake is reclaimed and virtue triumphant...
...true." The fact remains that despite all of this effort to try to make children happy in school, it leaves them uneducated for the most part . . . School should teach people how to study . . . how to read, how to concentrate on really tough subjects, to persevere in them and to conquer them...
Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...
...Ambassador. In 1934, bravely suppressing a twinge of suspicion, Von Papen agreed to be Hitler's Minister to Vienna. There he tried to conquer Austria for the Nazis "peacefully," by organized sabotage and propaganda. After four years, Hitler stopped Von Papen's slow choke with the velvet glove and swung his iron fist. Although he says Hitler had promised him not to use force in Austria, Von Papen shared the "general intoxication" of the Anschluss and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Nazi Party for his efforts...