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...plaque disappeared. To replace it, a new version was being lettered: "Trumped up stories of 'ritual murders' of Christian boys by Jewish communities were common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and even much later. These fictions cost many innocent Jews their lives. [They] do not redound to the credit of Christendom, and we pray, 'Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers...
...eyes and ears in a critical area. "In the long view," wrote Milton in a 1953 report that has since become the foundation of Latin American policy, "economic cooperation, extended to help the people of Latin America raise their level of well-being and further their democratic aspirations, will redound to their benefit and to ours...
Self-approving behavior comes naturally to 37-year-old Basso Christoff. The King of Bulgaria heard him sing 14 years ago and told him that it would redound to the glory of Bulgaria if he were to become famous as a singer throughout the world. To see that he did, the King gave the young man a royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl...
...decision, which has plainly been come to after subtle pressure, will be regarded by great masses of people as unnecessary and perhaps a great waste. In the long run it will not redound to the credit or influence of those who have been most persistent in denying the Princess the same liberty that is enjoyed by the rest of her fellow-citizens. Even the least cynical among us find it hard to see why an innocent party to a divorce [i.e., Sir Anthony Eden] can become the man who appoints archbishops and bishops, while the Princess, who merely exercises...
...fellow-traveling Socialists, had once, while in the Foreign Ministry, instructed Italian diplomats to press for a Trieste proposal that Nenni now opposed. It was a telling point, but Pella did not try to rub it in. Instead, he faced Nenni and said simply: "Those were instructions that redound to your honor...