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Righetti refused to go. "A captain does not abandon his ship,'' he declared. "A soldier does not leave the battlefield. I will not abandon my church." The masons came anyway and walled up the door with bricks, shutting Righetti inside...
...Certain comrades." said Tito, had cast suspicion on the Socialist character of Yugoslavia. "There is talk that a tactical attitude should be taken toward Yugoslavia, that she should be re-educated and again brought into camp ... It would be very useful if these comrades would finally abandon such absurd tendencies...
...Russians charge, increasing its diplomatic activity in North Africa-not against the French, but in the interest of seeing that events get no further out of hand. In informal backstage chats, U.S. diplomats show their support of Arab moderates. They hope the Rabat conferees will abandon any thought of establishing an Algerian government in exile-which Tunisia, and perhaps Morocco, would be forced to recognize; such a step, the U.S. is convinced, would drive France to break off all relations with them. But for the idea of a North African federation the U.S. has nothing but enthusiasm. In such...
Arab Republic (Egypt-Syria). Britain, whose North Sea fishing trawlers are a major industry, decided to abandon the three-mile limit in favor of a maximum of six, hoping thereby to avoid the threat of twelve, which would seriously jeopardize its fishing close to the coasts of Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Canada proposed a six-mile limit for national sovereignty, plus another six miles of exclusive fishing (a notion that horrified Britain). The Soviet Union, which has little at stake for itself in the issue, made propaganda hay by championing the smaller nations' twelve-mile proposals...
...Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw its 1,800,000 members behind an appeal to the U.S. Government "to abandon its inflexible position on disarmament and to explore the possibility of dealing separately with ways of ending nuclear-weapons tests...