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Going It Alone. Up to now, despite utter failure of negotiations a year ago, the U.S. had clung to the hope that Russia would carry out its moral obligation to junk the steel wall across Korea and set up an overall provisional government under a five-year trusteeship. But now, said Hilldring, "we are forced to go it alone. . . . We must take independent action in our zone pending unification...
...beyond the reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...
...true that the words "under Hitler things were better" can be heard on every street in Germany, but that is no indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever...
...Breaks. But without the planning, and above all, without the breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...party's intention to be a permanent part of Canada's political landscape, CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell said: "I cannot say whether the Conservatives will be swallowed by reactionary Liberals, or vice versa. . . . [But] all talk of our party coalescing or collaborating with another party is utter nonsense...