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...also attacked "the American feeling that we must propose compromises in any negotiations." He pointed out, "we are always mystified when the Soviets react haughtily to our proposals; we do not understand that they are not satisfied with normalcy and that they often see our proposals as signs of weakness...
Still these areas are undeniably in need of aid and the United States, Herman Talmadge to the contrary notwithstanding, is in a position to offer it. But America cannot be expected to react cordially when a nation she has tried to help turns on her. Her natural instinct is to cut off the aid, an action damaging to both nations...
...were tentative and uncertain. Seven hundred young Turkish Cypriot students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would he be pardoned by the British, sit down with them as Makarios' Defense Minister, and regale NATO councils with...
...characters move along in a sweeping dream. They meet and react; they pass through each other's lives but for consistency of purpose and character, they might as well be unamed. The texture of the book itself is often dream-like. There are no expanations for remarkable conincidences. Useless characters and irrelevant scenes are introduced, languish, and are forgotten. Time sequence and geography and character all blur into a fantastic, exciting, but extremely confusing montage. The Soviet literary critics rightly complained that there was a failure to distinguish between the March and October revolutions. No matter what the1
Suddenly Goddard had a kind of fame. Newspapers featured him, and the New York Times chastised him for the error (it is no error) of believing that a rocket engine can work above the atmosphere without "something better than a vacuum to react against." Goddard, a sensitive man, was appalled by this notoriety...