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Russia still insisted on the treaty's Article 16, a crucial paragraph requiring Austria to "take all necessary measures to complete the voluntary repatriation" of 40,000 refugees from Communist countries. The clause, which would make it easier for the Communists to force them to return to their homelands, involved the basic principle that the U.S. fought successfully in the case of Korea's P.W.s...
...Prime Minister replied that he hoped that Marshal Stalin would let him finish his illustration in regard to Hong Kong . . . Under paragraph 3 [of the veto formula] Great Britain in fact would have the right of their veto to stop all action . . . Great Britain would not be required to return Hong Kong unless they felt this should be done...
Poggioli also has the habit of introducing the most obscure references with the words, "As you know . . ." A few days ago he remarked that, "As you know, Turgenev's opinion of Dostoevsky was . . ." and quoted a paragraph in Russian. No translation...
Strater had with him a modest little book which he allowed me to thumb through. The many photographs looked like shots of daring jitterbug steps, with one partner suspended in midair. Beneath each picture was a short paragraph of English prose and a diagram resembling an Arthur Murray dance step. I could not understand the corresponding Japanese...
...ranks of both British and American novelists in the last few years. The tendency is to state, not to show; and the reader's duty is to observe, not to emphasize. Long, Trollope or Tolstoy-type works, with their series of minute contradictions and counter-contradictions within each paragraph over several hundred pages, have been abandoned in preference to far shorter works, such as The Old Man and The Sea. "Mass" or "body" in a novel is now not requisite; therefore both character development and the illusion of realism are secondary to the thematic and stylistic concerns of the author...