Word: proverbes
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...matter where a man stands in Korea he can see a mountain. The Koreans say: "You cannot sit in the valley and see the new moon set." Last week, in Seoul, Korea's aging new President Syngman Rhee made the same point with another proverb: "You cannot expect to lift a heavy stone without getting red in the face." His speech was part of a celebration of the return of national independence to two-thirds of Korea's 30 million people and one half of its land. In Seoul, the world's second largest bell* welcomed...
...Mentioned. Communist political strategy, exploiting the widespread yearning for peace, played up the possibility of peace talks. But with the summer's military successes, the Communists' peace price has gone up. One Nationalist official quoted a pertinent old proverb: Neng chan neng ho-Only he who can fight can make peace. The men around Chiang, even Vice President Li, an outspoken critic of the Gimo, were too staunchly anti-Communist to let China be swallowed by the Reds...
Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
...refused. Thereupon he was dismissed from his post as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. The institute was abolished. Twenty other top Soviet economists were in disgrace along with Varga; their mistake was that they did not listen to a proverb common among embattled Soviet economists: "It is better to defend the government's figures than to go to jail for your...