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...Actually, the Western peoples seem to have two dominant attitudes. First of all, they wish the Communists would roll up and disappear. Then they hope their allies would also roll up and disappear." Western people regard their relationships with other peoples as a "dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work...
While several Masters have suggested that valuable initiative inspired by separate menus would disappear under the proposed system, Tucker maintained that "the managers of the separate kitchens would have the same standards of initiative" with uniform menus "since they will still have to produce good quality food...
European missile bases, "subject to attack by large numbers of accurate Russian IRBM's," Ellsberg said, would disappear in the unexpected aggression...
...contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings. Like Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus, he disowned but failed to condemn terror. "I did as much as I could," said he. "I told my people to let the Mau Mau disappear like the roots of the fig tree...
...nationalists, banned an extremist white-settler newspaper as well as Tom Mboya's Uhuru (Freedom), which has been playing up Kenyatta as a national hero. The government insists that Kenyatta's simile was not meant to be innocent: the roots of the fig tree seem to disappear only because they go so deep...