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...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...
...bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited him). Only the Israelis were polite to President Eisenhower's emissary. They did not much like his scheme either (since it would bring no water to the Negeb), but decided they might as well let the Arabs bear the onus of saying...
...only true friend of the U.S. taxpayer. Republicans are painfully sensitive to charges that the G.O.P. is trying to "fatten the herd by feeding the bulls," i.e., strengthen the economy by tax relief to business rather than to the individual. Democrats, who during years of governmental responsibility suffered the onus of high taxes, are now beginning to enjoy themselves−and they have lined up behind an effort to lower taxes by increasing individual income-tax exemptions...
Nehru thereby avoided the onus of releasing the P.W.s himself, and tried to place a cruel stigma upon the U.N.'s inevitable release of the anti-Communist P.W.s: if the U.N. let the prisoners go, as it had repeatedly promised them, it would be guilty of "violating the armistice." Nehru then asked his sister, U.N. General Assembly President Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, to hold a special Assembly debate in February on the Korean "deadlock," and any nation which had not responded to the invitation by Jan. 22 .would be considered to have accepted. In this Nehru went...
...would not do to let it be seen so plainly that it was the Russians, not the stubborn Americans, who were frustrating a Big Four meeting on Germany. "The urgency of the foreign ministers' conference is by no means diminished," insisted Molotov, trying to throw the onus back on to the West...