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...Peril of the Popular. How many comrades in the rowdy new "peoples' democracies" of Eastern Europe felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian...
...book begins in one of the awful periods in history when "the noble British nation seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense or purpose, and appears to cower from the menace of foreign peril, frothing pious platitudes while foemen forge their arms." It ends with his appointment as Prime Minister...
...from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief of the conservation section of the Pan American Union, warns that "unless there is a profound modification in its treatment of the land, the greater part of Mexico will be a desert within 100 years." (The peril, warned Vogt, hangs over all Latin America...
...planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This year of anxiety and peril is the harbinger of world events which, perhaps, will be irreparable. . . . The great hour of Christian conscience has struck! . . . There can be no room ... for pusillanimity or for the irresoluteness of those who believe they can serve two masters. . . . We invite you, Romans, Italians, peoples of the world, to union...
...might have to use force or watch all its policies go down the drain. The military had. They argued that the U.S. should draw a definite line, to be defended with troops, guns and planes, and flatly warn the Soviet Union that it would cross that line at its peril. The risks were obvious. And what if the Soviet forces never stepped across the line but simply outflanked it, as in Czechoslovakia...