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...Choosing words carefully . . . Comrade Trotsky said: 'The lands bordering the Pacific will be the scene of the world's most important events. Europe does not relish this any more than it relishes the fact that the United States has become the most dominant power in the world . . . We not only sympathize with the Chinese revolutionists, but, if we could, we would gladly drown in Shanghai waters all who intervene...
...that time, nothing can save the picture. But Cinemactress Gardner gets able support from Actor Douglas, who plays a scoundrel with relish, and a handsome variety of low-necked costumes get able support from Cinemactress Gardner...
...positive side, he keeps his credo short and sharp: "Trust only the men who laugh with relish. I trust Shakespeare more than Corneille, Mark Twain more than Henry James, Robert Frost more than T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway more than Thomas Mann. They do not expect to vanquish folly from the world overnight...
...witness," McCarthy went on with evident relish, "was doing exactly what the chairman wanted him to do. The chair, I felt, was not interested in eliciting information from the witness which would indicate the presence of Communists in Government. The chairman was trying to conduct a whitewash...
...case of John Carter Vincent hiss and steam on the back of the stove. Dean Acheson wanted to promote him from his job as U.S. Minister to Switzerland, make him Ambassador to Costa Rica. But an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate, and the White House did not relish the prospect of another airing of Vincent's record. Items: during his years (1945-4?) as director of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs, he 1) assiduously promoted an anti-Chiang policy that played right into Mao's hands; 2) rewrote, with Acheson...