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...Peking. Next day, singing their Moscow hosts' praises, the delegation took off for Peking. Franklin burbled of the "never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There...
...passage of the amendment, Governor Hugh White blamed the "crisis" in part on Mississippi's Negro leaders, who are reluctant to approve continued segregation. But he insisted that "there is no intention to 'defy' the Supreme Court; we are simply exercising the same legal right to resist this most unfortunate decision that the [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] exercised in contesting the [pro-segregation] court decisions of over a half century . . . We shall now resist ... by every legal means at our command...
Outside Mississippi, local school officials and pressure groups tried, with varying success, to implement or resist the Supreme Court decision against segregation. Items...
...once the beautiful Lady Wakasa, attended by a dark old woman, appears, and asks him to bring some pottery to her house. He follows. She brings him tea; she offers him love. He cannot resist. "I never imagined such pleasures existed!" he cries. "You are my slave," she murmurs. At long last, a Buddhist priest frees the potter from her spell, and he turns back homeward. When he reaches home, he finds his wife dead. Only her spirit is there to comfort him, saying, "Go back to work...
...France, where EDC began, EDC faced a lingering, disorderly death last week. Its demise was an agony, for in choosing to resist an ideal and reject a safeguard, the French Assembly brimmed over with the kind of patriotism it so often summons up at moments when patriotism can only be negative...