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From Rome to Ankara to Karachi to Kabul journeyed the President of the U.S., and to Teheran, Athens, Tunis and Casablanca. And everywhere, he carried his message, understandable to all and backed by unbroken U.S. performance: "We want to live in peace and friendship???in freedom." More than that: "We want to help other peoples to raise their standards, to be as content with their lot as humans can be." To India's Parliament, he spoke of "a great awakening" in which the world's peoples have come to recognize "that only under a rule of moral...
...that living men could well remember and tell it to their grandchildren, Japan lived in isolation, well contented. One day there came a knocking at our door and looking forth we saw strange sights indeed. Fantastic folk, in awesome ships, with gruesome guns, held out the hands of friendship???and thus came America and Commodore Perry to our shores...
...other. They were always quarreling ?and always inseparable. Then the page turns back and we see them from boyhood on?friends in youth?then separated?then casually coming together again?the interwoven skeins of the two lives from youth to age. Oddities of temperament, accidents, wives interrupted the friendship???no theatrical Damon-and-Pythias sacrifices fell to the lot of either, exactly? but the friendship endured. Why, precisely ? Neither could have defined all the reasons for it. Neither tried. But it was the root of their lives. An excellent novel, original in theme...
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