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Admittedly, the new proposal would be difficult to work out in satisfactory detail. But by providing a practical quid pro quo, the plan dodged one sort of difficulty. By placing a minimum reliance on international inspection, the plan greatly reduced another objection. And by providing that, in case the whole scheme failed, no nation would suddenly find itself in greater peril than it would otherwise, the plan avoided the greatest objection...
...your head, reader? What recent gains in sensibility have you to register? Do you read or think as much as you used to? You are aware no doubt that your consumption of tobacco and alcohol has practically doubled . . . you will plank down three quid for a bottle of Scotch, you can't be trusted with a railway towel or a piece of hotel soap . . . and [you] write to the Times against Picasso; you're more antiSemitic, even, than before...
...Quid vobis videtur?" ("What do you think?") inquired the Pope. The Princes of the Church stood up, removed their red skullcaps, bowed in assent. The papal proposal was not a surprise to them: the Pope's intentions had been announced to all the world two months...
...Quid Pro Quo. Phil Murray doubtless figured that the week had been worth its loss of sleep. Labor's objective, he had said, could be stated in three little words: "Substantial wage increases." Now it looked as if he was going to get them for his Steelworkers...
...such, the plan put the next move squarely up to Russia. Before the communique was issued there was some speculation that it would contain demands on Russia for a full statement of its political and economic aims. But Truman, Attlee and King asked for a different-and better -quid pro quo. In effect, they demanded that in exchange for atomic information