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That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock: he would not discuss the matter before 437,000 supposedly fascist aliens in western Austria had been expelled...
Dead or not, the spotty rises in the prices of basic materials and commodities were helping erect a tombstone over OPA. It would be hard, if not impossible, to roll prices back, even if OPA were resurrected. But not for weeks or months would the creeping commodity increases come out in retail price increases. Many a businessman who had pledged himself to hold the line would find that he had little choice if the basic pressures became strong enough. How strong had they grown in a week...
...resolution of the U.N.'s General Assembly passed in London). He said: "All of us are consecrated to making an end of gloom and hopelessness. It will not be an easy job. The way is long and thorny, but supremely worth traveling. All of us want to stand erect, with our faces to the sun, instead of being forced to burrow into the earth, like rats...
...riddle: what walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, on three toward night? The answer: Man (who crawls as an infant, walks erect in his prime, leans on a stick...
...conviction that they had a true and living gospel for a decadent world, and ready to carry that gospel wherever the range of guns and bombs can reach. . . . And now a whole generation is looking helplessly round for some faith as powerful and as transforming that they can erect in opposition to this portentous, man-devouring sphinx of their own creation...