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Getting such ancient enemies together was an amazing tribute to the Russians; it was concern about the common peril which had united Greece and Turkey, made them NATO's newest partners, and led them to deploy their 29 divisions to guard the southern anchor of the Atlantic defense line. An old Istanbul grocer who fought the Greeks under Ataturk explained the change simply: "The Greeks don't like the Russians much and I hate them...
...highest military authorities," said Baruch, "have stated . . . that from now through 1954 will be the period of maximum peril . . . Yet we deliberately are doing less than we can to achieve readiness by that date. Nowhere have I seen any justifiable reason offered for such recklessness...
...author's analysis of the peril of the Western world is similarly extreme. "It still did not know," he writes, "or even want to know, two facts that it must know to survive: the meaning of Communism, the meaning of that new breed of man, the Communist." It would seem, however, from what appears in the daily newspapers, that the Western public possesses all the wariness it needs about Communism and that what it needs to know infinitely more urgently, if it is to survive, is the meaning of its own values rather than the meaning of values...
...fracas followers usually gathered at the famous Rebellion Tree, an elm east of Hollis Hall. It was there that John Quincy Adams' son George heroically told the mobs, "Gentlemen, we have been commanded, at our peril, not to return to the Rebellion Tree: at our peril we do return...
...irritated Congressmen who had appropriated a total of $35 billion for the U.S. Air Force since 1946. But in terms of the enemy's newly revealed seven-league boots, the point was all too valid. All last summer Vandenberg tried to make the other Joint Chiefs see the peril as he saw it. Sometimes, after a no-progress session, he would come back to his office, hurl his cap on a chair, and let loose a profane blast of despair...