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...votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party directorate, but the vote served notice that a solid platoon of rank & file Laborites shares the daydreams of the "Bevanly Host" (more class-war Socialism; opposition to rearmament). In Bevan's language, the U.S. is almost as flagrant a disturber of the peace as Russia...
Americans, for the most part, are sick and tired of the waste, corruption and flagrant mismanagement of the Tru-Deal, but feel just as strongly against Isolationist Bob and the so-called Old Guard Republicans...
...Kaesong's U.N. headquarters ("Everlasting Stability Terrace") to the conference building two blocks down the road. On the way, the admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed soldiers out of the conference area...
...about U.S. firmness at Kaesong, Ridgway cleared them up fast. He called off next day's conference, sent a coldly stern message to the Red commanders, North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai: ". . . I now invite your attention to this flagrant violation of the assurances which I required and which you promised. [Until] a satisfactory explanation of this violation and assurance of a nonrecurrence are received . . . the United Nations Command delegation will remain within the United Nations line. I await your reply...
Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...