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...search of allies, arrived in Saudi Arabia, a dusty, disillusioned man. He had found the Arab world fragmented by fears and quarrels. In Riyadh, Dulles got the advice he needed from the dying old desert King, Ibn Saud. Arabs, explained Ibn Saud, would never agree to MEDO. They detest legalistic documents so crammed with fine print and annexes "as to resemble a telephone book...
...intelligence officer who had divined the exact and detailed order of battle of the German army facing France in September 1939. After three weeks as commander in chief of the French Union forces in Indo-China, little more was known about him. A small, shy man. he appeared to detest ostentation and ceremony. He hardly showed himself to the troops, and he evaded newsmen. Once he got into the news by accident when Communists shot up a DC-3 in which he was making a low-flying survey of enemy lines. Then, last week General Navarre completed his review...
Socialists respect Raab for being a man of his word and for speaking it frankly but detest his politics. Chances are that before long, Austria will be wishing for the return of Figl's famous balancing...
Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who prefer to die in dignity for the sake of liberty to a life of dishonor in a realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always...
...Translation: "Constancy, tyrant of the heart, we detest as a cruel disease...