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...there is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see, and to see, we have only to look.'' The voters of the U.S. had made their choice "in a vigorous partisan contest," and partisanship "is democracy's life blood." Ultimately, "our cause will prevail"; until then, "there are things more precious than political victory-there is the right to political contest." And, said he with a wry grin, "as for me, let there be no tears. If I lost an election, I won a grandchild." (see MILESTONES...
...years before he became King, "he had talked about an Entente with France, and for 15 years [about] a rapprochement with Russia." Both notions were pooh-poohed by his mother and most of her ministers, who worked stubbornly for an entente with Germany. Bertie's views did not prevail until the heirs of Bismarck made it clear that Germany intended to expand at Britain's expense. Bertie came to the throne in 1901, and from then until his death (1910) "there was scarcely a diplomatic move ... which did not receive his active help." What Author Cowles suggests...
...believe," said Dulles, "that we will invoke moral forces which are bound to prevail." What if they did not? Said Dulles: "That will create a new and serious situation...
Heading back to the caucus rooms in Chicago or their bailiwicks across the U.S., the 22 legislators attending the briefing had one important point to remember. Though the U.S., as President Eisenhower had expressed it at his press conference last week, hopes that "good sense will prevail," there was grave danger that it might not. And if peaceful approaches do not resolve the Suez crisis, the nation-politics-happy Democrats and Republicans included-might be faced squarely with the necessity of surveying sterner measures...
...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...