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...evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient." And, if they seek suggestions either conclusive or startling they will look in vain. What they may forget is the fact that the obvious answer is often the right...
...note Mr. Lansing had signed in 1917 had not been torn up. That duty was left to Mr. Charles B. Warren, who has just returned from his post as Ambassador to Tokyo after having persuaded the Japanese Government to forget that any such note had ever been written...
...less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist and engineeer as he was a painter. In the field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone to forget that in his lifetime he spent almost as much time at one as at the other. Even in the Renaissance it was possible for a diligent and brilliant student to cover nearly all branches of human knowledge and to be proficient in several of the arts. As the generations passed, however...
...Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt at seeing the awful spoils which the Yenisei bore away in this annual retreat. These were the bodies of the executed counter-revolutionaries . . . Hundreds of these bodies with heads and hands cut off, with mutilated faces and bodies half burned...
...same time we are sure that a man who is so fond of reading as Senator Borah, will not forget the experience of that other investigator, Little Red Riding Hood. We do not think that the Soviet Government would eat the senator limb by limb, but we should be much surprised if it did not pull his leg. Lenin and Tchitcher are able and subtle men versed in all the arts of public and private diplomacy...