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Vishinsky's words sounded uncomfortably like the noises the Communists made 18 months ago to mask their aggression against South Korea: the Reds characteristically accuse the other side of a crime they themselves are about to commit...
...Swedish way of life does peculiar things to the human spirit. Stockholm is a city without tragedy; its absence is as striking as excessive silence. One begins to wonder whether the people in this clean, prosperous, well-ordered place ever feel violent emotions or commit violent acts...
Chin Hong, a 40-year-old New York laundryman, had already mailed his $700 life savings to China, to buy his relatives out of a Communist jail. When a letter arrived last week demanding $1,000 more, Chin, depressed and penniless, tried to commit suicide. In a frenzy, he attacked three policemen who tried to stop him. They shot him in self-defense...
...salary computed every month, based on earnings. Once, when Ross was explaining things to a new managing editor, he said, "I am surrounded by idiots and children." At that point, a copy boy burst in, shouting: "Mr. Thurber is standing on a ledge outside the window and threatening to commit suicide." (Actually, Thurber was merely sitting on the ledge to get a whiff of fresh air.) Ross turned to the editor. "See?" he said...
...Reds, Colonel Hanley's larger figure is open to suspicion of being "atrocity propaganda." The Allies carefully avoided such propaganda during World War II for an excellent reason--if backfires. Inaccurate charges of enemy brutality actually spur the enemy to further violations, and prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered our attempts to arrange a speedy truce in Korea; it also bloated the facts...