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...hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers as "Red guerrillas." For the sake of its own good name, the Korean army in December 1951 court-martialed Colonel Kim. At his trial, the "guerrillas" who intercepted the legislators were proved actually to have been Kim's men in disguise. The government reluctantly admitted that 187 civilians had been slaughtered. But from his jail...
...proposals and proposed the summit talks, he may have hoped the West would prove willing to yield a point or two. But the solidarity displayed by the West as the summit approached made it evident that the West was not to be bamboozled into damaging concessions just for the sake of easing a crisis that Khrushchev had created in the first place. His soft talk was getting him nowhere, and there were powerful forces in the Communist bloc that had always preferred talking tough...
...formulation of a doctrinal system, but instant, simple obedience in taking up the cross-"The disciple is a disciple only in so far as he shares his Lord's suffering and rejection and crucifixion." Grace is not cheap, but costly-"the treasure hidden in the field," for the sake of which "a man will gladly go and sell all that...
...address by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the gossipists quickly found an angle: Princess Margaret was slyly getting back at her critics, since the Ninth Beatitude goes: "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake...
...just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation: "How could I trust the native food...