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...father hated Mirabeau. "He is crossgrained, fantastic, fiery, awkward, with a drift to evil before he knows of it or is capable of it. ... I shall go on dragging my son along without knowing what river to throw him into." Mirabeau almost died of smallpox at three, was disfigured by it. All the children (his parents had eleven) were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands...
...could express surprise over the convention-end revelation that the Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief...
...Spain? To Americans who had opposed the creation of an international police force because that would let Soviet troops into Palestine, the Zionists had an answer. If the Palestine problem were allowed to drift, there might well be full-scale civil war when the British withdrew, giving Russia the chance to turn Palestine into a pre-World War II Spain. And in that case, the U.S. would eventually be forced to intervene, and at greater cost...
...master. "But," says Sloan, "if I hadn't been fired from the old Philadelphia Press in 1904, I probably wouldn't have been an artist at all. I'm really just a drifter." As Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week, Sloan's determined drift has taken...
...said: "Three hundred years is as nothing." He returned to the present: "The fear haunts me that India must yet go through a deeper blood bath." The government which he had dominated came closer & closer to open war on Pakistan. Only Gandhi's fast last month checked the drift toward open hostilities over Kashmir State...