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...Western Retort. The three Western allies were standing firm in the determination to keep Berlin free. In a televised address, French President Charles de Gaulle warned that the Russians were trying "to settle unilaterally the fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
...ships. The long-term result, the ship owners argue, could only be that more of the world's ships and shipping business would pass into foreign hands, leaving the U.S. with out even a flag-of-convenience merchant fleet to use in case of war. The unions retort that such ships might well be of little value in an emergency because some of the crewmen are "unqualified," and their loyalty to the U.S. is questionable...
...retort that the criticized school buildings would not be there at all if it were not for the U.S. Since 1947, 164 schools have been built with U.S. aid, and nearly all of the islands' 15,000 school-aged children are now in school. And what kind of economic development can be expected where coconut trees and fish are about the only resources? As for the failure to rebuild former Japanese industries, the U.S. could argue that none of them did the natives much good, since they were designed chiefly to help Japanese war plans-alcohol to fuel torpedoes...
...final summit session, as the resolutions were read. Lumumba fiddled and twitched, then rose to retort that "the incidents never would have taken place if from the first there had been a spirit of cooperation on the U.N.'s part." As if to explain away his troops' attacks on U.N. personnel, he shouted, "We are obsessed with the idea of immediately entering Katanga and liberating our brothers!" Then, waving a wad of yellow "membership cards" in a manner reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy, he charged that the Belgians had formed a private army to aid Moise Tshombe...