Word: confessional
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Candor & Confession. In his speech welcoming Democratic delegates to Illinois on the convention's opening day, Adlai Stevenson said nothing to clarify his own status, concentrated on mocking the Republicans who had left Chicago a week and a half before. Said he: "For almost a week, pompous phrases marched...
Stevenson urged his audience: "Where we have erred, let there be no denial; where we have wronged the public trust, let there be no excuses. Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. But we will never appease, we will...
BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed...
Signed & Sealed. In Lisbon. Policeman Rogerio Gracinha arrested himself for gambling away money entrusted to his care, methodically drew up a full confession, then locked himself in jail.
But today the world, as President Conant noted yesterday, is "poised between war and peace"; it is a period of extreme uncertainty. Too much has happened in the last 25 years to make the members of the class of 1952 believe that beyond mundane effort lies a nebulous ideal. To...