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...Reds had been isolated on the kind of issue every French voter can understand-an effort to thwart the will of the electorate. Observers wondered whether Duclos would try again this week when the name of Edouard Daladier, who was also elected, comes...
...continued with even more deliberation: "If we are to have peace-if the world wants peace, there are compelling reasons why China's present effort must succeed. This depends in a large measure on actions of other nations. If China is ignored, or if there is scheming to thwart her present aspirations, her effort will fail...
...have each done much to insult, antagonize and thwart the other. In the past few months the loose talk has grown to proportions which to me seem dangerous. [But] we must have an efficient working arrangement with Russia. . . . This involves not only our diplomats; it imposes an obligation on all of us to think clearly and fairly, and to speak with firmness and restraint...
Last week the realistic Paris Municipal Commission of Fine Arts took a quick look at history, the daily papers, and UNO, decided that replicas of the destroyed statuary should be made in stone, to thwart future pillagers...
...Merck, CWS was carefully inexplicit. CWS had developed improved laboratory techniques for the production and study of microorganisms, methods for detecting and controlling disease, protective clothing and equipment. But there was evidence that the danger of a bacteria-charged attack was no fantasy, that the U.S. was ready to thwart any enemy efforts*-and retaliate in kind...