Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regroupment in Viet Nam itself would mean nothing unless supervised by an effective control commission. Bidault rejected the Communists' plan for commissions made up of the two sides. "In case of violations, it would be impossible to control the situation," he said. "There would be interminable quarrels without arbiter, without control, and without end." Russia's Gromyko suggested supervision by a "neutral" control commission comprised of Poland, Czechoslovakia, India and Pakistan. Bidault retorted that a commission which merely balanced countries of opposite tendencies would be impotent, as the Korean commission had shown, and "being impotent...
...McCarthy held for weeks to his position that no transcripts of monitored phone calls could go in the Mundt committee record unless all of them went in. Gradually, this position melted, and last week the calls began to pour into the record. So far the results added up to a substantial advantage for McCarthy's side of the case...
Templer saw plainly that there could be no real prospect of uniting and strengthening Malaya unless its people, of all races, had the hope of political freedom. With the full approval of the British government, he junked the outmoded notions of imperialism and promised, in their place, that "Malaya will become, in due course, a self-governing nation . . . within the British Commonwealth." Templer pushed through a constitutional revision which will 1) permit national elections, 2) give the National Assembly a narrow majority of elected (over appointed) members. In principle, at least, the new constitution is a big step towards nationhood...
...books, produced and directed 28 plays in a repertory group and took to the stage himself. An Evening Standard critic saw him in a production of Hamlet, wrote: "Mr. Kenneth Tynan, who did the First Player last night, would not get a chance in a village hall unless he were related to the vicar. His performance was quite dreadful." Tynan, outraged at the review, wrote such a lively letter to the Standard ("My performance in Hamlet was not 'quite dreadful' . . . it was slightly less than mediocre") that the paper at once hired him, later made him its drama...
...reflection. Like reflection itself, it has become almost a luxury, or in any case a publisher's risk. Who now cares much about what one unimportant individual, no matter how sensitive, thinks of life as it runs itself out in unimportant byways? The answer is, very few readers-unless such a book slows down life itself for a few hours and makes it seem as various and remarkable as it really...