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Back in Bloom. The response was an outburst of fury unparalleled since the Hungarian revolt itself. Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella withdrew his nation's Minister to Budapest, refused to consent to the appointment of a new Hungarian Minister to Rome. In Montevideo students hurled a gasoline bomb at the Soviet embassy, and Russian missions in New Zealand, Bonn, Istanbul and Copenhagen were all stoned. (As a countermeasure, the Russians permitted a carefully stage-managed crowd to break seven windows in the Danish embassy in Moscow...
...sweetheart, Rinaldo. knew that she would slip out that night and wait for him in the vineyard. They were very happy, but when at last it came time to talk of marriage, Alba's father said no-again and again. He was just about to give his consent, he says now, when Rinaldo was drafted into Italy's World War II army and sent to Greece...
...schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates in it the intelligent suggestions of the non-Board members--there will never be a new high school built in Mount Vernon...
...troubled by the possibility of "another Spain," i.e., an attack on France from army strongholds in North Africa. What should the U.S. do if paratroops invaded France to install De Gaulle by force and the government appealed to foreign powers for help? De Gaulle himself answered: "I could not consent to receive power from any source but the people, or at least its representatives." Top State Department officials formed a working consensus that 1) although Premier de Gaulle might be a difficult ally, 2) he would be preferable to another multiguided compromise government and infinitely preferable to a Communist-Socialist...
However, I find myself up against determined opposition from the [Parliament]. Since I could not consent to receive power from any other source than the people, or at least their representatives (as I did in 1944 and 1945), I fear we are proceeding toward anarchy and civil war. In that case, those who. through party considerations incomprehensible to me, shall have prevented me from pulling the nation once again from its difficulties while there was still time, will bear a heavy responsibility. As for me, there would be nothing left for me but to withdraw into my sorrow until...