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...less than seven years, Chou En-lai had come from a rebel cave in Yenan to triumphant victory over the West on the West's own diplomatic grounds. For however much the U.S. tried to ignore him, however hard Britain tried to soften the ugliness of his victory, Chou last week was on the way to scoring Communism's greatest victory since China fell...
Later, Graham had to soften his words. "I am here on a spiritual mission, not a political one," he explained. But it detracted little from his success. In Düsseldorf, three-color posters proclaimed: 75O SINGERS, 200 TRUMPETS AND BILLY
...that the agreement to relax controls on East-West trade was a necessary concession to the British and French, who are being hard-pressed by the U.S. diplomacy on the political front, the Senators would probably have understood him better. But when he implied that the new trade might soften the heart of Communism-i.e., that Russia makes guns only because she has no channels for peaceful trade with the West-then Stassen was clearly all thumb and no plum...
...elder of the Reformed Church himself. Malan voted for Dönges, the more moderate candidate, largely because his Finance Minister warned: "South Africa needs [foreign] capital, and will not get it if Strijdom becomes Prime Minister . . ." With Malan's backing, Dönges won. To soften the blow to the Boer fanatics in the party, Malan delivered a two-hour lecture full of surefire sniping at the British crown. "The South African Parliament," he thundered, "can abolish the monarchy with one vote. If our appeal court judges declared a [Boer] republic invalid, I hope I would still have...
...historians have ever tried to defend "Bloody Mary." Roman Catholic Historian Hilaire Belloc sought to soften the impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor...