Word: extremist
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...progress. The French colonists are always stronger than the French government. The agitation will keep on until world opinion interferes to stop this massacre." Yet Bourguiba still spoke mildly, demanding for the moment only "internal sovereignty," full of praise for French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and denunciation of "extremist Arab forces causing such disastrous conditions" in Egypt...
...still there was no peace in Egypt. The extremist weekly, Al Gomhour, offered ?1,000 Egyptian ($2,880) to anyone who would kill Lieut. General Sir George Erskine, British canal zone commander, and another ?100 ($288) to anyone who killed any British officer. In reply, Sir Brian Robertson, British Middle East commander, back from talks with Churchill, declared: "We shall go on month after month, for many months if need be. We shall meet force with force . . . We shall [not] be turned back from our policy by the passage of time or murderous episodes...
...final possibility is for extremist effendi reactionaries to oust Mossadegh by some coup. "If the effendi can do this." Brinton says, "They will almost certainly re-establish good relations with the West, realizing this is probably the only way they will be able to gain a sure lease on life for themselves...
...Until we find a more democratic method for gaining information on the extremist," Hall continues, "I feel it is necessary to resort to this kind of investigation...
...complete agreement with Mr. Weinberg in his opposition to buying a football team, but not in his theory that Harvard should de-emphasize soon to avoid commercialization. I am always suspicious of alternatives, of so-called "turning points"--they invariably exist more in the mind of an extremist than they do in reality. There can be no danger that Harvard football will become commercial when such a change would require revision of scholarship, admission, and academic policies which the University has strongly and consistently upheld...