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...Eisenhower," he said, "believes that he has found another kind of peace-peace of mutual forbearance, in which each nation pursues its own aims in every way short of armed conflict." Such a peace, prophesied Rhee, will lead to disaster because 1) "it gives the Communists the chance ... to fix their grip permanently on conquered areas," and 2) "the Communists themselves will not abide...
...Roof, will be fixed up by Studio Boss Dore Schary. Schary's fix: the relationship of the younger brother to a homosexual football captain will be changed to simple hero worship...
...earth. They were met by the Golden Gate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit in Geneva...
Last week Clem Attlee announced his decision to a meeting of the Labor M.P.s: he would definitely resign at the end of the present session of the House in. July 1956. Up leaped Bevan himself. "No!" cried Bevan. "Clem, I implore you not to fix a time for your departure." It would only encourage rivalries just when the party needed to draw its warring factions together, he pleaded. Bevan added quietly: "I have no personal ambitions for leadership at this moment . . . I have no intention of forcing a contest...
...sincerity but were unwilling to take him seriously. France-Soir termed him "Heaven's publicity man," roguishly claimed that the audience had "understood neither his sermon in English nor the translation . . . The messenger of Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed...