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...have said all those things in an hour's time. However, I am most sure that I also said a great deal more about this lovable old breed. A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play. They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient...
China's Communists have recently reported striking victories over some of the country's ancient scourges. Amoebic dysentery, for instance, is rampant where drinking water is likely to come from an open sewer, and by the standards of Western medicine it is a stubborn disorder to cure. But a hospital in Shanghai reports 100% success in 16 cases treated with pai ton weng (white-haired elder), a medicinal herb touted in a medical classic of about 2,000 years ago. So now a factory in Hankow is making a drug brewed from this widely grown herb...
Interesting in his own right is Author Kubizek, who reveals more about himself than he intends. Trained as a musician, he wound up only as a small-town civil servant. Kubizek (now 66 and retired) is half irritating and half engaging in his stubborn insistence that, in the midst of a vast historical tragedy, he must remain loyal to the memory of a youthful friendship. He symbolizes the Little Man who goes on forever, while the Hitlers rise and fall. And he has at least enough moral sensivity to say: "For the question, then unknown and unexpressed, which hung above...
Disarmament would be the best solution, said Churchill. "But facts are stubborn things," and one of the stubbornest is that the Soviet government refuses to accept "any practical system of international inspection." The West therefore has "only one sane policy in the next few years. That is what we call defense through deterrents...
...Still stubborn and starry-eyed at 75, O'Casey refuses to give up a personal label merely because an international political conspiracy has discredited it. "I am a Communist," he told a TIME correspondent last week, and added: "They're bloody fools, these Communists. Always looking to Russia. They're too rigid. They drive me mad. They know nothing but what they read in their little pamphlets. If all the Communists were like O'Casey, Communism would be a menace to the world...