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...horse twice." Replied Molotov: "We did not approach this problem of reparations from a point of view of merchants, but we do not want other merchants selling our horse at a low price without our consent." (The strong equine note in the discussion reminded observers of an old Russian proverb which applied to the Ministers' quadripartite steeplechase: "Even with four legs, a horse can stumble...
According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
...secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
...marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber, and now this...
...Germans, says Knauth, have a proverb about logic: "If you say A, you must say B." Their concentration camps were "A ... the proposition that all men are not created equal. The B was that therefore some men are superior to others. The C was that the inferior men must be subjugated. The D was Buchenwald, and all its counterparts in Germany...