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...Soviet Union intends to attack no one," said Georgy Malenkov. "Aggressive intentions are alien to it ... We stood and stand for a peaceful co-existence of two systems. We consider that there is no objective ground for a collision between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. . . . After a long period of increasing tension, a certain discharge in the international atmosphere has become palpable for the first time in the postwar years...
...John A. O'Brien, Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath and Dr. John S. Bonnell of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.* In strong terms, Eisenhower expressed his agreement with this group. "Generalized and irresponsible attacks that sweepingly condemn the whole of any group of citizens," he wrote, "are alien to America . . . When [they] condemn such a vast portion of the churches or clergy as to create doubt in the loyalty of all, the damage to our nation is multiplied...
Lineage. In Chicago, charged with draft-dodging, James Pharr, 25, failed to make his point and drew a five-year sentence after telling the court that he was exempt from service because he was related to the Neanderthal man, was therefore an alien "Asiatic...
...changed his name and fled to Switzerland. There, he got a job as chaplain of an Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done...
...about the drift of the times. He bitterly opposed recognition of Soviet Russia, a government he held responsible for the "abominable murder" of Cousin Nicky, the Czar. In 1917 there was a fluttering of republicanism, and H. G. Wells declared it unthinkable that Britain should struggle longer under "an alien and uninspiring Court." George was incensed. "I may be uninspiring," he thundered to a visitor, "but I'll be damned if I'm alien...