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...Communists were not the X in the equation. Their intention to rule the world had been proclaimed a thousand times, and their strength under various circumstances could be fairly accurately forecast. The unknown quantity was the Western world. How seriously would the West try to resist the Communist expansion? How ably would it go about that resistance...
Five European nations yesterday laid foundations for a Customs and Economics Union of Western Europe to resist the spread of Communism. Representatives of the countries, which include Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, predicted the pact would be ready for signature by the end of the week...
...John Nance Garner had sat for seven years on his Texas farm, stubbornly refusing to say a word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns...
...correspondent," Foreign Assistant Editor Donald M. Wallace wrote to one of them, "should listen to all prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
...Zionists, watching the slow whittling away of U.S. support, flew to arms. The mistake was not in the partition plan, they cried, but in U.S. vacillation, which encouraged the Arabs to resist. They called for a repeal of the embargo on arms to the Middle East and for U.S. initiative in forming an international police force...