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...Residue. History, sloppy as usual, had decreed a fade-out rather than a blackout of the British Raj. No longer Viceroy, Mountbatten would become Governor General of Hindu India and chairman of the commission to split the nation's assets between Moslem Pakistan and Hindu India. Sir Patrick Spens, * India's Chief Justice, had been assigned the unenviable job of arbitrating all constitutional issues between the two stormy new nations. For a while, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck would be Supreme Commander of both Pakistan and Indian armies...
...Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village; but her book unwittingly turns the village into a tourist center, and destroys it. Says Christ, in one of the stories: "There is no abiding home for strength and beauty among men. The flower fades, the seas dry up in the sun, the sun and all the stars fade as a flower. But the desire for such things, that is eternal, that can abide, and he who desires...
Great empires, like old soldiers, never die; they just fade away. Britain's legacy, like Rome's, will cling for centuries to history's pages, shaping men and events. Yet to all empires comes a day of which it can be said: "At this point the scepter had passed to other hands." That day came last week to Britain...
...Communist power meant Molotov, who in U.N. and in the Council of Foreign Ministers strove to freeze into international acceptance (and, where feasible, to extend) the Red Army's conquests. Now that the Russian diplomatic drive had been checked, it was Molotov's turn to fade into the background, making way for the next-and the most serious-phase of the Communist effort to control as much of the world as possible. Propaganda and organization, reaching into every field of human activity, characterized the new emphasis...
...jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...