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...Prime Minister answered the way that Maxim Raymond, and every other M.P., knew he would. Said he crisply: "My understanding is that [Mr. Bevin] is representing the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom only." Members on both sides of the House thumped their desks in approval...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning the late Will Rogers and Chester Bowles). And two facts are indisputable: 1) a whole generation of Russian Communists was officially liquidated in circumstances that may gratify mankind's sense of poetic justice, but outrages its sense of human justice; 2) Trotsky was assassinated...
...Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...