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...sectarianism," i.e., pure revolutionary violence, and not enough on the "revolutionary combativeness" of the popular masses. That Comrade Billoux only a few weeks before had ordered them to do what they did was no excuse: if the Politburo had seemed to err, that was because the "deviating" French had misunderstood. They had also confused the task of the moment-the fight for "peace against America"-with the task of the future, which is, of course, the Socialist revolution. At the moment, said Fajon, the "struggle against American Imperialism" (i.e., NATO, and the Schuman Plan) is more important...
...check of this disturbing news last week showed that the President had got it wrong-as he often does. He apparently had fallen victim to an old Washington rumor that the dome .was off balance and resting on a crumbling sandstone wall. He asked an expert about it, but misunderstood or misremembered the answer. Actually, the dome is resting comfortably on a substantial granite ring and is structurally sound...
...said he had misunderstood the topic when contacted last week by telephone, and later rejected it because its wording favors a "negative viewpoint." He also objected to the phrase "for its citizens...
Virulent, cajoling, sarcastic, he went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...sister and invented excuses to see her again. Soon the thought of the handsome Denis was invading Sister Clothilde's prayers. She tried to reassure herself: "I love him as a son. There is nothing else. I love him as a mother loves her son." But she had misunderstood her feelings as completely as Denis had at first misunderstood his own. One day, kneeling beside him in a church, she could not help putting her arms around him. Soon, on the pretext of coming to Sister Clothilde for Latin lessons, Denis was making love...