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The intense isolationism of the 1939 speech was replaced by a sensational confession: "Acquaintance with the life and customs of other nations will be of benefit to our people and will widen their outlook." Conscious that returning Red Army soldiers had brought home much dissatisfaction with them, Molotov earnestly said...
The Cabinet. By his own confession, the Prince had "no words to apologize to His Imperial Majesty that things came to such a head. . . ." Promptly he chose his Cabinet-mostly civilians with past ministerial experience and records of collaboration with the militarists. In Washington's eyes, they were the...
¶ 7,976,000 "true confession" magazines.
When he made his confession, Van Meegeren was in jail awaiting trial as a collaborator. He is still there, and the full details of his sensational story are still to be checked. One official of the Rotterdam Museum has a theory of his own: Van Meegeren may be a muddy...
Now Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos...