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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...United Nations, he said, was still the place to work out world control of atomic energy. The U.S. was not convinced that its atomic control plan was the only answer. "The stakes are too large to let us or any nation stand on pride of authorship," said Harry Truman. If Russia or anyone else could produce a better plan the U.S. would gladly accept it. But "anything less would be a sham agreement...
...Thou Shalt Not Kill." But that kind of argument was not material to the real case of Dr. Sander. Had he done a good deed or committed a great sin? The state's answer was that Dr. Sander had committed a sin against society, tearing apart some of its moral and legal fabric; that fabric had to be repaired, no matter what the defendant's own interpretation of what was right and what was wrong...
...Great Britain had recognized the government of Ho Chi Minh's French-sponsored rival, former Emperor Bao Dai. By refusing to follow the lead of the Western democracies. Tito had given his answer to the Cominform's charge that he is an agent of Western imperialism. Fortnight ago the Yugoslav dictator publicly proclaimed: "We did not bow to the Soviet . . . How could we, then, bow to the West? . . . [Rather than] separate our foreign policy from our socialist principles ... we should prefer to go naked...
There are many possible answers. Perhaps the simplest answer is: Because T. S. Eliot is a civilized man. He is more; he is a commentator on his age who is considered by some more important than Gabriel Heatter or Walter Winchell-or even Walter Lippmann...
Last week the Marqués de Lozoya, Madrid's art director, asked Jesús to name his price for the fragment. "Nothing," was the answer. "It brought me adventure. To discover a Velasquez and call it one's own, even for a short time, is enough." Nonetheless, Lozoya pressed a 20,000-peseta ($1,800) reward on Jesús, proposed him for a government decoration. But Jesús was already off to the junk shops again. "If anyone finds more pieces," he declared, "I am the man who should. I have that Velasquez feeling...