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...Arab states will also ebb a little farther, as it has done after each successive outbreak of border violence. At best, a long period of continued friction and undiminished enmity between Israel and her neighbors lies ahead. But however illusory are the hopes for an end to Israel-Arab discord, the United States and the other great powers have an inescapable obligation to prevent the disaster of another Middle Eastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Road to Damascus | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

...recognition of the Central People's Government would give American policy-makers and negotiators greater latitude for manoeuvre, greater freedom of choice. It presumably would relieve the United States of some commitments, momentarily embarrassing, to the National Government; it would reduce at least one of the areas of discord between the United States and some of its allies; and it would satisfy at least one of the demands of the Communist world. But it simultaneously would enmesh the United States in commitments to a government hostile to the free world and party to the conspiracy which seeks to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Tory Landslide | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Prelude to Discord. U.S. apologists for Yalta have said for years that its mistakes are only apparent by hindsight, that the circumstances of 1945, especially the brave and loyal Russian record of cooperation in the war, made reasonable the assumption that Russia, Britain and the U.S. could act in postwar concert. The record as now revealed undercuts this argument. Stalin, at least, kept his head above the tide of comradeship. He defined his national and party objectives, studied them carefully, defended them with lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Peace Was Lost By Ignoring Justice And the Facts of Life | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Emerging from jail (where he had served 21 days for leading the orthodox rioters), Rabbi Abraham Blau, foremost of the zealots, called for an end to violence and discord. The members of the anti-orthodox League Against Religious Compulsion also sheathed their resentment for the holy occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hanukkah in Jerusalem | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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