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...intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
Russia too knew that it was a subtle game. In Damascus a Syrian spokesman began preparing the ground for a more modest view of the Russian commitment. Defense Minister El Azm, the official spokesman emphasized, had gone to Moscow very much on his own. Final agreement on Soviet aid to Syria, he added, has not been reached. Moscow left it up to Damascus to brag of how much the aid would be and was careful not to commit itself irrevocably...
...commit ourselves to Thee . . . confident that Thou are working more wisely and more powerfully among us than we understand...
WITHOUT LOVE, by Gerald Hanley (245 pp.; Harper; $3.50), has a theme that might be described as disgrace under pressure. Mike Brennan, the seedy son of a lace-curtain London-Irish family, is hanging around present-day Barcelona waiting to commit just one last political murder before he tells all to a priest. Like Britain's London-Irish William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Brennan had fallen out of the church into Mosley's Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted...
...thought he was a Catholic. They aren't allowed to commit suicide, are they...