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...people are tired of fighting, the army is tired of retreat," he said. Gaullist tactics aimed at ending the politically divisive Algerian war have not yet improved matters. "Peace isn't much nearer, and the tragedy most certainly is," he said...
...practical results, the Kennedy speech probably had only three: 1) for better or worse, it helped create an atmosphere in which Berlin negotiations were possible; 2) it strengthened sentiment for a single, forceful U.N. executive; 3) by advancing new disarmament proposals (see THE NATION), it scarcely brought disarmament any nearer, but it improved the U.S.'s moral and propaganda position on the subject in the eyes of the world...
...insult to the assembled neutralists by setting off their bomb, there were signs that the reluctant leaders at Belgrade were getting the point. Senior Neutralist Nehru, who often sees two sides even when there is only one, took the speaker's platform, declared: "The danger of war comes nearer and nearer by the recent decision of the Soviet government to start nuclear tests. Our situation today is the most dangerous since World War II ended." The conference, he urged, should first address itself to this issue, laying aside the old shibboleths of colonialism and imperialism. He recalled his stint...
...When the new Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals are out and the state remolded nearer to the tart's desire...
...prison camps. "I remember watching the last golden leaf fall from a tree across the wire in Bavaria," he recalls. "It was a terrible loss." Now a Cornwall man like Lanyon, he says: "I've got a feeling I'm losing the landscape. I'm getting nearer and nearer to pure abstract painting. I want conflict and contrast...