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Whatever the study decided, India had already decided to stand against the U.S. "To pass a resolution of aggression, even if the charge were fully justified," said Rau last week, "would hardly redound to the prestige of the U.N. unless it was intended to be followed by other steps...
...various speeches, Balbin had mentioned another subject-Evita Perón. "The public charities of the President's wife," Balbin once said, "seem to redound to her private good." Another time, Balbin remarked: "Social justice for her can be summed up as her own economic betterment." Observers believed that it was disrespect not so much to the President as to the President's wife that had earned Balbin his harsh sentence...
...loss; that we like the hatred of the rest of the world because we are fortunate enough to be able to help other nations out of their difficulties; that we are proud of the destructive characteristics of the atomic bomb. . . . The fact that our acts redound to our advantage at times is hardly a just excuse for vilification...
...people. This right has been denied to their peoples by both the Nazi and the Soviet Governments. . . . Any defense against Hitlerism, any rallying of the forces opposing Hitlerism, from whatever source these forces may spring, will hasten the eventual downfall of the present German leaders, and will therefore redound to the benefit of our own defense and security...
...agreed to install infidel gadgets, running water and electric light, in the ancient cities of Mecca and Medina, and to build modern highways along the pilgrim routes which now connect them with the outside world. The innovations should stimulate the pilgrim trade on which both cities depend, which will redound to the greater glory of Ibn Saud, Farouk and Allah...