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...Communists did their best to exploit the disaster. First they spread the rumor that U.S. A-bomb experiments had caused all the rainfall and the flood. A surprising number of Italians seemed to believe such nonsense. Not missing a trick, the Communists then demanded that the Rome government divert arms appropriations to flood relief...
...State Department now seemed prepared to follow Britain's Micawberish line: let Mossadegh fall, perhaps his successor will be more tractable. Mossadegh flew off home, scheduling a stop en route at Cairo, where he and the Egyptians could make muscles at the British together. That might divert his homefolks from his empty hands...
...probably would like to see the British stay in Suez as a defensive screen against the hated Israelis-resisted his Foreign Minister's plans. But, being under attack for his government's corrupt mismanagement of Egyptian finances, he was content-as Egyptian politicians always have been-to divert attention from his own sins by denouncing Britain...
...University may claim that it cannot afford the cost of such a department, but surely it could divert some of its funds to such an important field. Geography is just as much a necessity as physics, economics, or any other subject to a nation that has assumed the burdens of a world power...
...consideration of the $3,700,000 the Egyptian government appropriates for "among other things, repair of the royal yacht and of palace walls" and $2,000-a-day on-the-Riviera costs, could you not persuade our Congress to divert that "trickle of Point Four aid" from Egypt to local fields...