Word: mis
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Dean Watson explained that the action was not one of banning the John Reed Club but rather banning a group "mis- representing itself as the John Reed Club." "You have to be a member of an organization if you want to plan a meeting for that group," he added...
...dangerously misleading. Most inaccurate of the lot are the comparative U. S.-Russia military strength tables. The armed forces presumably have accurate intelligence information on Russian strength but magazines can't get at this data--the tables are based on "reliable sources," generally shrewd conjecture. And quantitive figures are mis-leading. Russia's land strength is numerically impressive, for example, but military men point out that most Russian divisions have been more or less inactivated, just like our own. The Russian air force is large but considerably outmoded, and there is a lot of evidence that the Soviets are having...