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...blunt Syngman Rhee, there was only one answer. "The way to survival . . . is not the way of wishfully hoping for peace where there is no peace; not by trusting that somehow the Soviet government may be persuaded to abandon its monstrous effort to conquer the world . . . but by swinging the world balance of power so strongly against the Communists that, even when they possess the weapons of annihilation, they will not dare use them...
...dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled with this sense of guilt. Joan Hinton's answer was to abandon her profession and her country...
...Moscow, Pravda front-paged an editorial scolding the Communist Party, trade unions and youth organizations for shirking their duty of stamping out God. Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...
...argument that followed, said a Frenchman, was "Homeric." After two hours Mendès got Chou to abandon his grab for Laotian territory, and to withdraw most of his support for the Pathet Laos claims. In exchange, Mendès accepted Communist Poland as a member of the three-nation supervisory commission agreed that major decisions should be by unanimous vote, thus yielding the Communists a veto...
...Daily News called it "a five-spasm series," while such dailies as the Chattanooga Times hailed it for showing "up Senator McCarthy for the ruthless demagogue he is." Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet expressed astonishment that Woltman, who has "earned widespread support as an anti-Communist writer," could abandon his "fairness, integrity and accuracy" and turn "hatchet man." The Pittsburgh Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Pittsburgh diocese, took an exactly opposite view, called the series a "study which the country needs and for which it has been waiting...