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...This decision shocks me just as it shocked all world opinion," he said. "Whatever the motives of the Soviet government [it has] a clear bearing on the deterioration of the dangerous international situation." But his moment of conscience quickly passed; he spent the rest of his time on the rostrum denouncing the West and Western colonialism...
Watching warily, U.S. officials hoped that Pak might finally stop the witch hunts, get down to grappling with South Korea's basic problems; scarcely anything had been done to get the stagnant economy going. At week's end, Pak took to a public rostrum to declare that "the revolution has entered the second stage . . . Its objectives are winning' the public mind, and reconstruction of the economy." Everyone would be happy if he followed up his words with a little action...
...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., adopted a "progressive Republican" platform of which Goldwater bitterly disapproved. But when Arizona nominated him as its favorite son for President, he walked out on the rostrum to withdraw-and to make the convention's most telling speech in pleading for G.O.P. unity, with heavy conservative overtones. "Now you conservatives and all Republicans," he cried, "I'd like you to listen to this. We've had our chance, and I think the conservatives have made a splendid showing at this convention. Let's, if we want to take this party back...
...curbed. For weeks Ikeda tried to work out a compromise. Finally, Ikeda lost patience and forced the bill to a vote in the lower house. In Japan, this is described as resorting to "the tyranny of the majority." Socialist delegates resorted to their fists, forcibly took over the rostrum. The Speaker riposted by conducting the Diet's business from the middle of the floor, where the government's Liberal Democrats formed a protective cordon around...