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Pleas & Warnings. As he mounted the rostrum and waited for the jingle of the little long-handled silver bell which starts debate, 76-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looked tired. For months he and the allies had been negotiating a "contract," a preliminary peace treaty, to replace the occupation. He was near the end of his bargaining, he said, and at the stage where he needed a parliamentary majority behind...
...farewell appearance in the U.S., Premier Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend...
...could hardly sleep all last night," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. General Assembly. "I could not sleep because I kept laughing." He bent his white-thatched terrier's head over a typed manuscript, then looked up with a sharp-toothed grin. "Really, even from this rostrum ... I cannot restrain my laughter." There were a few appreciative giggles from Reds in the galleries, but otherwise Vishinsky laughed alone as he gave Russia's answer to the West's dis armament proposals (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS...
...fine, fustian fettle, Harry Truman stepped on to the rostrum at Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week and told about his first military experience in the National Guard. "I was 21," said the President, and all decked out in a handsome blue uniform complete with "red stripes down the britches." He wore it to visit his old, red-haired grandmother, Mrs. Solomon Young, whose farm had been looted by Federal soldiers during the Civil War. "Harry," she said, looking him over carefully, "that's the first time since 1865 that a blue uniform has been in my house...
Youth today is waiting for the hand of fate to fall on its shoulders, meanwhile working fairly hard and saying almost nothing. The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation." But what does the silence mean? What, if anything, does it hide? Or are youth's elders merely hard...