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Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...
...notice and wrote my letter to all known candidates in order to reaffirm a policy which had been in force since Mr. S. I. Newhouse acquired control of the paper in November 1951. Since that time, no staff member of the Jersey Journal has handled campaign publicity with our consent. As a newly appointed editor arriving in a year of great political activity, I thought it desirable to let the staff and all interested politicians know that the new editor had no intention of changing the paper's policy on this point...
...plan stated in all but bald terms that it is Egypt's canal and will be run Egypt's way. Nasser did not mind if the $20 million which the U.N. had spent in clearing the canal was added to the regular tolls, though he would not consent to Egypt's paying any of the costs for raising the hulks which the Egyptians had sunk...
...time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps the most gifted of the current undergraduate composers, would consent to slum in such a stunt...
...Voice of America and the Free Europe Committee fulfill their function, although they may not achieve the satellite liberation which they claim as their major goal, besides that of spreading information. Their real function is symbolic, the vocal reminder of an ideological disparity between Soviet rule and government by consent of the governed...