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...government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet persists in office partly because no other majority among France's politicians wants to assume the onus of grappling with the dilemma of Algeria. When Mollet returns from a visit to Moscow next week, he will face a debate on his Algerian policy. Nowhere are there more misgivings about his policy than among the members of his own Socialist party, deeply uncomfortable about the war of repression which circumstance has forced on them. Mollet may survive, but will that be enough...
Item I. Overnight the West worked out a common strategy. Molotov had accepted the onus of keeping Germany divided: the West would therefore see to it that the onus stuck. Promptly at 4 p.m., the conference came to order and Harold Macmillan took the floor. His voice was icy with anger...
...future, Raeder said with a huff and a grin: "For God's sake, no! That is the very last thing I need." Raeder was released at the request of the West German government, which wants to give its new army a clean start by removing the war crimes onus from men whom most Germans generally considered to have been upright soldiers...
Heretofore, Red China's masters have dismissed rebels in scornful and deprecatory terms as "bandits," "imperialist agents," "members of the discredited Chiang Kai-shek clique." This time the Communists did not put the onus on foreign agents, but conceded the existence of a home-grown opposition to the People's Government. "The leaders of the group," said the Peking radio, "were sentenced to death...
Churchill to F.D.R.: "I am somewhat attracted by the suggestion of Jerusalem. Here, there are first-class hotels . . . We ought to put the proposition to U.J. and throw on him the onus of refusing. After all, we are respectable people...