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...risk of finding itself in a few years fighting with the Russians for the possession of a moral corpse. It is also certain, in the struggle, to gather a lot of allies who will almost surely make it seem to Europe's masses a champion of reaction. . . . Unmitigated Gloom. What is going to happen in Europe? One can only wonder-and dread. Will Communism overrun the Continent? At the moment the chances seem to favor that. If the Communist advance becomes too rapid, we may try to stop it. If we do, and Russia by that time...
Last month gloom deepened; Mabel disappeared. Gripp was grief-stricken. Then he too disappeared. In inner Tower circles it is suspected that Mabel's kidnapper kidnaped Gripp to keep her company. All over Britain farmers offered replacements...
...united like the victims of a blast, in pain and befuddlement. The Party's strategists picked themselves off the floor and felt themselves gingerly. It was too early to tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains...
Said a U.S. naval expert recently returned from Europe: amid Europe's gloom "there were signs of increasing hope because of our stiffening policy toward Russia-but that was before the Wallace speech.... I am convinced we are in for a long occupation of Germany and the Trieste area. It is an occupation against Russia more than anything else, but it is necessary. Unless we keep something propped up against the Iron Curtain, the curtain will start blowing our way." He added that there was no danger of immediate war in Europe ("immediate" meaning one year). "However, we have...
Historical Crossroads. In Nanking, behind the grey brick walls of Communist headquarters, gloom thickened. Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai defiantly walked out on "senseless" negotiations with peace emissary Dr. Leighton Stuart, and accused the U.S. of "complicity" with the Chinese Government in fanning the civil war. He flatly rejected a renewed Government offer to participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force...