Word: listener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is no time for words, but for actions. We Americans acted when the Korean crisis began, but now we just pity the poor Hungarians and listen to their strangled calls for help with a few tears in our eyes. It should not surprise us now, if all the people who have to live under Soviet domination will fall into a lethargy and hopelessness, such as is the case in the U.S.S.R. itself...
...most dispiriting thing about U.N. debates is not their occasional descent into abuse, or their relentless prolixity. It is the fact that, with rare exceptions. U.N. debates are conducted in a vacuum-and when they result in "decisions." no one who finds those decisions unpleasant feels obliged to listen. Three weeks ago. attempting to justify to the House of Commons Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French...
...Listen Pope, dean of Yale Divinity School: "There is no great religious revival in America, and probably will not be in the accepted sense . . . But there is a great revival of interest . . . Religion has a better hearing, and less open opposition . . . [But] the extension of church membership . . . should not be allowed to obscure the present state of the world . . . At this time of the greatest need, the influence of religion on human affairs appears to be indirect, and, all told, rather minimal...
...picture above, Mark Bias (right) discusses his particular solution as critics (from left to right) Maxwell Fry, Dean Jose L. Sert and Patrick Horsbrugh listen...
...exchange for surrendered arms. The rebels, who had done no looting during their days of pride, now began looting shops and department stores. Food trains halted by the Russians outside Budapest were hijacked. Hundreds of radio sets were taken from one factory, presumably so that the rebel underground could listen to the outside world. Monitors reported the faint voice of a Hungarian radio "ham" calling: "Give us news! Say something! Give us news. We ask for news...