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...picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after President Gifford said, "Hello," Vice President Miller heard him, answered over a reverse circuit. Mindful that this first round-the-world conversation should be nobly phrased, President Gifford began: "This is another step in the conquest of time and space. . . ." Soon both men lapsed into shop talk...
...What is to be done," asked Russia's Litvinoff, "if a State demanding or seizing the right to armament is ruled by people who have announced to the whole world a foreign program consisting not only of a policy of revenge but also of unlimited conquest of foreign territory and destruction of the independence of entire States -people who, having publicly announced such a program, far from repudiating it, continuously circulate it and bring up their country in this spirit...
...would be happy to discuss this question in the presence of and with the participation of representatives of the State concerned. We would be happy to have from that State an official declaration of its repudiation of a program of revenge and conquest and of its readiness to collaborate with us in a collective guarantee of the security of all States, including itself, and in common effective guarantees for non-violation of the peace of the world...
...Modesty has always been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
Last February Death came to Archeologist James Leslie Mitchell, at 34. A literary dual personality, Archeologist Mitchell was also Novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...