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...decision had been implicit from the beginning, in the revolt that toppled the throne, killed the King and his pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, and brought Kassem's army clique to power last July. The timing was what counted...
...British, hitherto the politest, who delivered the sharpest retort to the insulting distortions of history implicit in Khrushchev's Berlin note. With tongue in cheek, the British wondered why, among other historical documents, the Russians did not mention the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which "made the outbreak of war inevitable," called Munich a lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure...
...that, in the mood of the times, taking a stand on a balanced budget is politically unprofitable (see Republicans). More to the point were the charges by New-Dealish Democrats that, in pushing for a balanced budget, the President was neglecting home-front welfare jobs that needed doing. But implicit in such complaints was an assumption that Dwight Eisenhower explicitly rejects: the assumption that it is the Federal Government's duty to take care of all problems, provide for everybody's welfare...
...scientists are forced to give up all hopes of testing theories on the constructive use of the atom, atomic research will lose many of its most devoted and imaginative workers. Even if the ban is legally only a temporary one, there will be a strong moral commitment implicit in it, which may make it difficult ever to resume tests. Considering the possible finality of the agreement they are undertaking, the men at Geneva should introduce flexible provisions governing peaceful experimentation under an international agency...
...selection printed in the Advocate has the virtue of containing ideas, both explicit, as the narrator is intelligent and articulate, and, we may infer, implicit, as Robinson can control the relationship between the reader and the narrator. Unfortunately, a defect of the "excerpt from a novel" as a literary form is here evident; the figure of the narrator can only begin to emerge. The reader finishes wanting to see more and unable to find it in print...