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Although Ike had scrupulously avoided heading Stassen off, he was angered because he thought Stassen had gone too far in hurling darts at another member of the Eisenhower team. At the airport he went out of his way to wring Nixon's hand and engage him in private conversation. Moving down the line, he came to Stassen, shook hands routinely, uttered a brief "hello." Bubbled Harold, "Congratulations, Mr. President, you did a wonderful job . . ." His lips were still wagging when the President moved...
...ever. In London a detachment of Scotland Yard men rounded up roly-poly Father Kallinikos Macheriotis, Cyprus-born abbot of a Greek Rite church, as he cooked his solitary supper of beef and eggs, and deported him summarily to Greece. The angriest questions of Labor M.P.s failed to wring from government ministers any more than the bare statement that his activities "went beyond any legitimate ecclesiastical duties and were not in the public interest." Despite this unyielding attitude in public there were signs that both the British and the Greeks were increasingly desirous of ending their cold war. The exiled...
...determined Jewish island in a sea of hostile Arabs, Israel had suddenly ceased to wring its hands in self-pity over what it considered the perfidy of the West. Its new mood was a combination of realistic apprehension and determined self-reliance...
...Stalin had contrived and falsified evidence, against party members
whom he (in most cases wrongly) conceived to be his enemies. He
"murdered" (Khrushchev's word) hundreds of old Bolsheviks, including 70
out of 133 members of the Central Committee in 1937. He had tortured
people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even little children
had been tortured, said Khrushchev, as tears streamed down his face. To
get confessions, Stalin had promised some victims a dacha (country
cottage), but "the only dacha they saw was underground."
...broken promise plainly indicated that the amnesty was conceived from the beginning as a trap. Having failed to catch bigger game, it was sprung on Carlos Arcaya, presumably to wring from him information about other exiles...