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Seething over this latest example of the Christian Democrats' new determination to harass the enemy by every legal means, the Communists called a one-day citywide strike in Florence. And at a merry festa in Ravenna, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was so mad he let his fangs show. Usually he talks a sweetly reasonable line; last week he gloated over the death of EDC, hailed the armistice in Indo-China and boiled with indignation at the banning of the festa in Florence...
...Second Night. At 12.39 a.m. next day, as the talk droned on, Knowland introduced a closure petition by which debate could be shut off on a two-thirds vote. It was Knowland's only available weapon, and with it he served notice of his determination to harass the filibusterers. They rejoined by demanding a quorum call at 12:50, another at 3:46. The quorum calls gave the orators a respite while the sergeant-at-arms routed Senators out of their beds at home or off their cots in the Capitol...
There was still no panic in the city, no discernible excitement around its shifting defense perimeter: the Viet Minh continued to harass as diligently as soldier ants; the French put on one or two counterattacks and claimed "appreciable" Communist losses. The artillery fire was all French-as it was at Dienbienphu before the Communists were ready. But the French and Vietnamese troops were now almost certain they would not be called upon to fight. "The gentlemen at Geneva have arranged it all," they would say. "Wait a few days. You will...
...this very man, voicing hopes that are nigh unanimous throughout the Philippines, feels obliged to harass and oppose the President on many major issues. Why? It is part of a strange and complex yet somehow simple story, a story which begins with the fact that Magsaysay is the prophet and product of a genuine revolution. He personifies and has brought to vivid life the tired cliché that the little people of his country expect him to govern for them. As his critics and intellectual superiors are prone to say, there are many things that he does not know, perhaps...
...Russians intend merely to harass and delay, the U.S. intends to stay in the business of defending the free world-politically, economically and militarily-for a long time to come...