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...Truman gave his successor some pointed advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business of Congress...
...European Army, he had cold fury: "If ratified, [the treaty] would wrest from France her sovereignty for 50 years, which means forever . . . and would transfer to the American supreme commander the full right of deciding how France would be defended ... It would dissolve France by merging her with vanquished Germany." For the French who support EDC, he had a threat: if the plan is approved, there will ensue "a state of permanent revolt" in France...
Speaker Joseph W. Martin hoped to postpone the issue until next year. He was in no mood to repeat last year's performance on the excess-profits tax, when he had to wrest working control of the Ways & Means Committee away from Dan Reed. This year old Dan has gone along with the Administration's social-security expansion program. Martin does not want to repay Reed by opening an all-out fight against him on tariffs...
...Butler was picked to find the answer. He took over the two chairs and one desk which constituted the Tory research department, and set to work "to wrest the initiative in the realm of political ideas from the Left." His first step was something hitherto unknown in Tory circles-he called on party members for ideas. Said Rab: "When I first knew the Tory Party, policy was brought down from Mount Sinai on tablets of stone. The faithful who waited for the tablets were often blinded by the light they...
...given Malraux a passionate humanism that contrasts vividly with the dry gripings of most critics. "A man becomes truly Man," he maintains, "only when in quest of what is most exalted in him. . . There is beauty in the thought that this animal who knows that he must die can wrest from the disdainful splendor of the nebulae the music of the spheres and broadcast it across the years to come, bestowing on them messages as yet unknown...