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...obscurity and the absence of stormy petrels were assets, the new Kanellopoulos I Cabinet was a masterpiece. The Premier himself had done a year's stint as Vice Premier in the wartime government in exile, but most of his Ministers were just names to the Greek in the street. Possibly this was just as well: the new Cabinet's job is to govern Greece only until the national elections, still tentatively...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...
...Javanese empire eight centuries ago, it was written that a white man would come one day to Indonesia. He would stay to rule the islands many years. Then, for the three-year "life of a hen," a yellow man would reign. And after those three years, the people would govern themselves...
When you hear such expressions as "So mote it be" (signifying approval); "Called from labor to refreshment": "Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly"; and that gem that Blackstone loved and quoted in his Commentaries, "From a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary"; you may well know that the persons who use them are members of "That Ancient and Honorable Institution of Freemasons that has outlived the fortunes of kings and the mutations of empires...
...Wildest Luxury." He told correspondents in Rome that UNRRA fell far short of meeting Europe's needs. But, said he, the fault was not UNRRA's. He blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program...