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...policy was now a thing of the past, for, with economic and military reconstruction, "Europe emerges as an entity capable of living its own life." Naturally, he went on, "it must preserve an alliance with America. But the reasons which made Europe less an ally than a subordinate are dis appearing one after another." Europe must now assume its share of responsibility; this should only please the U.S., for, the implication was clear, things were just getting too much for the Americans. "Whatever America's wealth, its power, its good intentions, the multiplicity and complexity of the problems...
...show that Carrie put a price tag on it. In one of his last letters, he wrote that he could not "secure you the larger competence you have so frequently mentioned. I can pay with life or reputation, but I can't command such a sum. To avoid dis grace, I will, if you demand it as the price, return to Marion to reside . . . If you think I can be more helpful by having a public position and influence, I will pay you $5,000 per year in March each year, so long as I am in that public...
...leaders of the Society had no dis- illussions about the effect of their declaration. "Our party may pay little heed to what we say here today," the statement said. But, it continued, "The spirit that gave birth to Republicanism is still alive in the land of today...
...great many of the charges; nine other South Africans, tried in a similar case last year, had been sentenced to death. But this time the government evidently decided that death sentences would have created super-martyrs who, from the grave, could have rallied South Africa's often dis jointed blacks and coloreds as well as many white liberals...
...most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...