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Early in October, French pilots reconnoitering over the wild Thai country 90 to 100 miles northwest of Hanoi saw a peculiar thing. The once-faint paths through the jungle, though empty, seemed much more clearly marked than before. They were being trodden (as the French discovered later) by 25,000 night-moving Communist coolies carrying arms to well-hidden caches for the Viet Minh guerrillas...
...Acheson talked, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky followed the English text closely and three times underscored Acheson's remarks. The underscorings: "The aggressor [in Korea] now counts for victory upon those of faint heart who would grow weary of the struggle . . . We shall fight on as long as is necessary to stop the aggression. We shall stop fighting when an armistice on just terms has been achieved . . . The Communists have so far rejected reasonable terms for an armistice...
...fighting is easy; we love war, we yearn for the feel of a gun in our hands!" The applause to his hour-long speech showed him as the only individual in Spain outside of Franco with personality and popularity of his own. As for Franco himself, his faint voice and prepared script were anticlimactic, as he declared: "If war comes, it will not resemble others. Communism cannot be fought by the inoperative liberal doctrines of the old nations. It is necessary to fight them with new ideologies." A forest of arms stretching up in the old Fascist salute showed what...
...Best God Can Do. To hear him talk, each of those novels is an illustration of his cheerful philosophy-a belief whose statement has faint overtones of Jimmy Durante, faint undertones of the incorrigible schoolboy. The world, he says, "may not look so good, but it is the best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...
Final Hymn. Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...