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...three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally questionable; after long illness; in Bethesda...
There were few in the sold-out Stadium of nearly 39,000 who had expected a Harvard victory, and indeed, there were others willing to give away as many as thirty points, so confident were they of a Yale slaughter. And it is only to the credit of the Crimson players that a higher score was averted...
...Pope continued: "Too much blood has been unjustly shed! Too much mourning and slaughter has been suddenly renewed! The slender thread of confidence which had begun to reunite peoples and gave some comfort to souls appears to be broken . . . Can the world disinterest itself in these brothers, abandoning them to a fate of degrading slavery? Let all other problems be set aside . . . Perhaps if nations which sincerely love freedom and peace are united, this will be sufficient to induce those who break the fundamental laws of human understanding to milder counsels...
...these facile anodynes are clearly inadequate to dismiss the tragedy of brutal slaughter, the blatant violation of every civilized principle of right and humanity that Soviet tanks are enacting in the streets of Budapest. Nehru the nationalist, the anti-colonialist, the champion of humanism has played a sorry card; there can be little doubt about that...
Britain's bombers over Cairo made the really shocking surprise of the week: Russia's conduct in Hungary was more cruel because bigger in the totals of human slaughter, but it was, after all, in character for Communists. Israel could claim the need to break the menacing circle of declared enemies. France had emotional and strategic reasons for crushing Nasser, to get at the source of supply of the Arab rebels in French North Africa. As for Britain, its justification for aggression against Egypt had to be that a quick war could bring the kind of Middle East...