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...There must be something more important going on in Latin America that you could devote this precious space...
...Mormons pressed on. The world had seldom seen anything to compare with this epic migration: here were a whole people with their newborn and their aged, their cattle, their faded wedding dresses, their precious hoards of gunpowder and nutmeg, unfalteringly crossing half a continent to find a kingdom in a desert...
...hoarse, flat voice. "Yesterday we got an order for 50,000 of them for Poland, and we are getting them together now. In Stettin they will fetch a good high price. Most everything is scarce in Poland nowadays. Take sewing-machine needles. They are much better than gold or precious stones. We sent 2,000,000 to Warsaw recently. We buy them for 2½ marks a package in the British zone, mostly through doctors who get interzonal passes easily and like to make some money; then in Poland we sell them for nine zlotys. Nine zlotys buys...
Kremlin's Estimate. For two years after V-E day, the U.S. had lost precious time because it had 1) underestimated the effects of Britain's decline as a force in Europe, and 2) mistakenly counted on Russian cooperation. The end of the British support for Greece (which left the U.S. in a lonely if Olympian sentry box) ended the first delusion. Moscow ended the second by shunning the reconstruction agencies of the United Nations, by stalling on peace treaties, and by stepping up the pace of Communist movements everywhere. The Russians at last made clear that their...
...legal search warrant, since it must specify what is to be searched for and seized, "is not only unnecessary; it is a hindrance." As for the officers' good faith, "history has shown good police intentions to be inadequate safeguards for the precious rights...