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...business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers in massive numbers to Egypt, with untold consequences to the balance of power in the Middle East. By 1 p.m. Eden yielded. He advised Mollet: "We've practically won. Nasser cannot last long now, anyway...
...Whenever Black spoke." said Nasser. "I went back in my memory to the year 1854, when Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in Egypt and told the Khedive: 'We want to dig the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal will bring you untold benefit.' " Egypt put up $40 million to help build the canal, supplied forced labor to dig it, and "120,000 workers died digging the canal . . . Britain forcibly took away from us our 44% of the company's shares . . . Instead of the canal being dug for Egypt, Egypt became the property of the canal...
...enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters do untold damage to the church cause. Some of them make thousands, yes, even hundreds of thousands of dollars' profit with no way of knowing where the money goes...
...estimated 6,000,000 Jews and untold numbers of gypsies and slave laborers perished in the racial and religious mass murder of Naziism. But there were other victims whose "crimes" were individual and matters of conscience. Here, 57 such victims, most of them German Christians, speak their last from Hitler's charnel houses; their words blend into a vox humana whose organ tone speaks of things older than man's inhumanity...
Adenauer's Ordeal. The untold story of West Germany's shortcomings might be called the ordeal of that great old man Konrad Adenauer. Der Alte saw his deepest convictions shaken. Even his closest intimates only partly appreciate how severely that ordeal tried his spirit and paralyzed his decision. Germany has scamped its obligations in almost exactly the degree that his hand has faltered...