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...seemed foolish. "You just block them, and they have no place to go except in the arms of somebody where we don't want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts by way of off-the-cuff press-conference remarks, the President hedged. But behind a noncommital answer lay a surprising...
Schwadran said that the United States should insist Egypt abide by the six United Nations principles on the Suez Canal. If Egypt should refuse, the U.S. should apply stringent economic measures and should attempt to isolate Egypt...
...F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed. And Schlesinger's set pieces on the U.S. scene during the Depression read like excerpts from the New Masses of the 30s; his description of the Democratic Convention hall in 1932 is thick with cloying, selfconscious phrases...
...almost like flying," he went on to explain, "you use your body as an airplane uses its wings." Istel also pointed out that with new technical developments and a stringent safety code the sport is safer than skiing...
...perhaps the most stringent order of all, the officers warned Rojas to give up any possible plans for reforming the constitution so that he could succeed himself when his term expires...