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Chuck Luckman nevertheless stuck to his guns. Out of his volunteer headquarters, which had spread down one side of an entire corridor in the old State Department building, his aides pumped out a steady stream of suggestions, advice, recipes, and bales of statistics (one slice of bread saved per person each day means seven million 1-lb. loaves a day for Europe). He flatly turned down any idea of legal controls...
During all this time the Soviet Government have poured out through their radio, in 26 languages, enormous speeches made on their behalf, an unceasing stream of abuse upon the Western world. And they have accompanied this virulent propaganda by every action which would prevent the world's settling down into a durable peace, or the United Nations Organization playing its part as a great instrument to prevent war. Indeed, the conferences at Lake Success, perhaps prematurely, have become a sounding board at which reproaches and insults are hurled at each other by the greatest states...
...short-grass farmers, enduring the heat and two hours of speechmaking was no great price to pay for the spectacle before their eyes. Above the dam lay a turquoise lake. Below it, through a creek-bed ordinarily dry at this time of year, tumbled a stream of water, enough to feed 340 miles of irrigation canals and ditches...
...thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
Each character takes the spotlight in turn, bares his or her inner torments in stream-of-consciousness. Virginia Woolf carried off the trick; Toynbee doesn't. Through the dense matting of symbolism (even the choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...