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...more sober tones read: "We should like that with the departure of the old year, of the old President, our bad relations with the United States should also depart. During the election campaign, Mr. Kennedy said that had he been President he would have voiced regret to the Soviet government with regard to the U-2 flight. In view of all this, we obviously should not insist on discussing the question in the United Nations Assembly, so as not to let the bad past interfere with hopes for a better future...
Said he: "Some may regret that routine, fear and prejudices have, in the past, hindered assimilation of the Moslems-supposing that were possible." But the fact that "the Moslem- form eight-ninths of the population, and that this percentage is constantly increasing in their favor," led De Gaulle to the conclusion that "the Algeria of tomorrow, then, will be Algerian. The Algerians will conduct their own affairs, and it will be up to them alone to found a state with its own government, its own institution and its own laws...
Hans loses out, of course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, said he was not surprised that "the vagaries of Christmas Day" had made inroads into his lecture course. But expressed regret that his Wednesday Phil 1 lecture might be heard by few students...
...Some Regret Decision...