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...telephone rang. We got a warning from headquarters. "It looks bad. I think they've broken through. You'd better get out of here as fast as you can. Head south for Suwon...
...last Sunday, the telephone rang in the Forest Hills, N.Y. home of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie. The caller was Ambassador Ernest Gross, U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations. The U.S., said Gross, wanted Lie to call an emergency meeting of the Security Council to deal with the invasion of South Korea by Russian-backed North Korean troops. Burly Trygve Lie buckled down to action immediately, did not get back to bed that night...
...commandment, to be followed regardless of the consequences. It became diluted between World Wars I & II, says Holloway, by the social thinking of liberal Protestants who hoped to use Christian ideas to reform society. Up until Pearl Harbor, denunciations and renunciations of war "as an instrument of national policy" rang out from many church conventions. But when war came, most churchmen gave it their support...
...long the three phones rang in a seventh-floor room of Atlanta's Henry Grady Hotel. A pudgy little man answered, shifting a black cigar into a corner of his mouth. "How're you, Jim?" he said. "We all right in your county? You gonna get them out to the polls? Fine. Well, if you need anything give me a ring and reverse the charges." Roy Harris, the man who makes Georgia governors, was busy electing Governor Herman Talmadge to a second term...
...Negro vote: "The niggers are a little disgusted. They thought they were going to get equality and now they have found out they are not. Now you have to pay the preachers to get 'em out." That wasn't worth the expense, Roy figured. The phone rang. "Hello, Mr. Leonard," said Roy. "What's the situation down there...