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Americans must analyze this bi-partisan foreign policy carefully. Republicans achieved the majority in Congress with precious little said about foreign affairs. Thus the confusion within the G.O.P. on just what form American internationalism should take went by unnoticed. Distaste for Truman's domestic polities gave rise to an imposing carteblanche delivered to men of unknown sympathies. By 1948 Americans will know whether the Republican Party has become the new apostle of business like world cooperation or the avant-grade along the road back to the economic isolation...
...regularly the precious treasure...
Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...
After the Japanese invaded Java in 1942 von Koenigswald was a prisoner for three years. His precious bones were safe. The three Gigantopithecus teeth were hidden in a mile bottle with a Swedish friend.--Life...
...approach itself remains open. It is to be hoped that, with the air cleared, discussions may proceed in an atmosphere of complete frankness and understanding. . . . [And] when, in the fullness of time, reunion with another Christian body is achieved, it will not be at the expense of the very precious unity that already exists within our own Church...