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Kennedy's speech was welcomed even by the usually critical Indians. Wrote the New Delhi Indian Express: "President Kennedy has effectively placed the onus of responsibility for a shooting war on the Soviet Union by displaying courage, vision and flexibility." But some critics felt that the President had at times overstated his vision. In his eagerness to defend the U.N., he clearly exaggerated when he said that "in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war." Although he ringingly announced U.S. determination to fight for the essentials of its Berlin position, some also felt that...
...blame seems to fall on a U.S. that, bent on victory, was too single-minded to set realistic conditions for Japan's surrender. In hindsight, acceptance of such conditions might have ended the war, buttressed Asia against the newly strengthened Communists and relieved the U.S. of the onus of having dropped the first atomic bombs-which the Communists have used as a powerful anti-U.S. propaganda point...
Pressing Orders & Fast Talk. Clark was "embarrassed" by another record maker's gift of a ring to him and a necklace and fur piece to his wife (total value: $4,400). But there could be no onus attached to the gift: Clark explained that he had never worn the ring. A freckled, pipe-smoking songwriter named Orville Lunsford told how Clark's subsidiary firms worked. His record All American Boy got a fast ride to the No. 2 position in record sales-but only, he said, after the Mallard Pressing Corp.. one of Clark's interests...
Fadiman's attempt to remove this onus by main force is neither so precisely measured as Eliot's invention nor so massive as the Robert Hutchins-Mortimer Adler set of Great Books. Fadimaa. has drawn up a similar list of 100, but 'he provides only an introductory pep talk about each book's contents and author. If he sounds like a real estate agent when he assures his readers that they may take up to 50 years to complete the plan, it probably does not matter...
...onus for suspicion, tension and the U.S. arms buildup on the U.S.S.R., for its attempts to export Communism. Nixon told the Soviet people that they work one day out of every four to produce armaments...