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Quid pro Quo. This week Lippmann was halfway through his thesis. The quid pro quo for the Red Army's withdrawal, he indicated, would be withdrawal of U.S. and British troops from Europe. Then it would be possible (he implied) to establish a balance of power,* and, based on that traditional kind of diplomacy, establish some real hope of peace...
...when he was bluntly asked if he would run if nominated, the General literally left his listeners up in the air. "That is an impossible question," he said. "If I asked you what you would do if you were flying to the moon, and halfway up you met a friend who was flying to the moon, and he asked you what you were doing there-why you'd say that was all impossible. It would be useless to answer the question...
...Helper of Virgins." In the whitewashed committee room, whose unpainted, rickety shutters open on to the rusty municipal balcony, Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway. Let 3,000 lire be given to church funds and 3,000 to municipal charity...
...votes.) Delegates of 40 nations, on hand for the show at the Senate Palace, heard the Dictator blandly promise to "maintain the same system of democratic order followed heretofore." For the long-hatching plot of Dominican exiles to overthrow him (TIME, Aug. 11, 18) Trujillo had a characteristic answer. Halfway through his oration he paused, barked: "Whoever tries to disturb the peace will find that we are willing to defend it." Right on cue, sirens went off all over the city, and armored cars rumbled toward the Senate Palace in a roaring hint of what might be in store...
...Brazilian Senate had become so dull that one day last week Rio de Janeiro's big afternoon newspaper Diario da Nolle sent a cub reporter to cover the sitting. He got a red-hot scoop. At 2:25 p.m., he spotted a Senator walking toward a desk halfway back on the left in the Chamber. That, was all he needed. The cub raced for a phone, gave the flash to his office: "Prestes is in the Senate...