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Each Chief of State will present his country's accounting for the tensions that perplex the world. Then, the parley is set up to resolve itself into a continuing conference of committees -on Germany, on European security, on atomic control, probably on trade, possibly on the Far East (though to this the U.S. is opposed...
...understand because few people know the key to their secret-Graves's tireless interest in the nature of his goddess. Once this involved premise is grasped (if not accepted) a Graves poem can be seen immediately as a model of disciplined lucidity. There are no "unconscious" ravings to perplex the reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western world is still alight, but it fizzles up in willful...
...verb whose meaning it changes. Dr. Bar-Hillel points out that the sentence "Paid gibt Trunkenheit vor" (Paul simulates drunkenness) might be translated mechanically "Paul gives drunkenness before." He has no solution for this problem except to make writers of German use an "operational syntax" that will not perplex the machine...
What About Gandhi? There is no doubt that Nehru's desire for peace is deep and sincere. Yet his efforts for peace are what most perplex his Western admirers. He has said: "The policy India has sought to pursue is not a negative and neutral policy. It is a positive and vital policy that flows from our struggle for freedom and from the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. How can . . . peace be preserved? Not by surrender to aggression, nor by compromising with evil or injustice, but also not by talking and preparing for war." In spite of this Gandhi-like...
...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...