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Gandhi's toes were blistered. As he walked the flower-strewn paddyfield paths of eastern Bengal last week, through lines of Hindus and Moslems who wept and knelt to touch his bandaged feet, other Hindus and Moslems in distant Bombay chopped at each other with long knives. Twenty-two people died in the Bombay riots, including some Untouchables who were caught in the middle...
...life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring sightseers came to watch them, and bought drinks as they watched...
...Force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
...regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite patience and many words to advance a foot...
White (E. for Elwyn, B. for Brooks), comes equipped with a slogan: "Federalists of the world, unite!" And he waves a flag, "a wild flag, [the flower] Iris tectorum." In a Whitean dream a Chinese delegate says: "I propose all countries adopt it, so that it will be impossible for us to insult each other's flag." Lest all this seem too whimsical (Author White made his reputation as a humorist) the tough-minded reader is offered a working policy: "We propose that it shall be the policy of the United States to bring...