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...when duty called last spring in the form of an "approach" from Kensington Palace, Cronin gallantly undertook the job-at a salary of $2,200 a year-despite his unfavorable impression of his new master. Tony Armstrong-Jones's pants, in Cronin's opinion, were still much too "tight-fitting." Worse, his new master had not even the rudimentary good sense to stay abovestairs, but popped into the kitchen ("a place I do not expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire...
...intended to assure France primacy in Western Europe . . . to persuade the states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization as one of the three world powers and, should it become necessary, as the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-American camps...
...little-known school with constantly rising costs. But Holland treats this problem more as a conspiracy than as an obvious, though distinctly unfortunate, fact. The very small, new or specialized institutions would naturally not have the endowment of others; and, in effect, most have scholarships for all in the form of low tuition...
...slow down and end the arms race. We call for unilateral steps toward disarmament both on principal and as a practical strategy which represent neither surrender to Communism nor wishful fantasy, since no country courageous and rational enough to thus disarm would be an easy victory for any form of dictatorship. We risk a great deal in reliance on nuclear arms: we must be willing to take risks in pursuit of peace...
...prevent us from undertaking a program of civil defense, as this would provoke moves from the other side, and increase the psychological danger of war by making war seem more tolerable. The conversion on constructive work of laboratories new engaged in developing chemical and biological poisons might be another form of unilateral initiative we could take. In an age when the security of all nations is threatened by the nuclear arms race of the major powers, these would be actions in the interest of all nations, which would enhance rather than reduce our security...