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...joined in solemn discussion of the danger. The U.S., Dulles told the audience, must beware of any tendency to "become panicky and strike out violently." At the same time, he said, the U.S. must not "become fascinated, as by the gaze of a serpent, and become paralyzed into inaction lest the least movement might lead Russia to strike." At the White House the same day, President Truman admitted that his hopes for peace had been shaken in the past year. Then he carefully added: "I still believe we can get world peace. We must have it because...
Last week, as Royal Marines from the Sheffield went ashore at Belize, Guatemalans called on their army for protection from "a British invasion." President Arévalo asked the U.S. to defend Latin American claims against Britain lest the inter-American system collapse. Citizens demanded 200% duties on all British goods. At week's end, there was loud talk of breaking diplomatic relations...
...Lest global optimists be taken in likewise, official sources last week were cautious about making predictions. "It is still too early for quantitative estimates," said a report from Washington, "but figures thus far received indicate that . . . the harvest in Europe during 1948 is likely to show an increase over that of the past two years." There were many problems of recovery, like Britain's dollar shortage and the gaping worldwide need for machinery and raw products, that a few days of fine weather could never solve. But if the winter had not insured Europe's recovery...
...Lest they feel that he is different, he scratches and squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...Gandhi's weapon contained a measurable threat of violence in India. When Gandhi fasted, Britons sometimes dared not keep him in jail, lest a massive anger at his death in their hands engulf India. "I always get my best bargains behind prison bars," he once chuckled. When Gandhi fasted, Moslem, Hindu and Untouchable leaders had to promise to work better together, lest that anger of the masses be directed against them. No communal group, not the mighty British Raj itself, dared have Gandhi's blood on its hands...