Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee appeared Singer Paul Robeson, a long time fellow traveler, to denounce the bill. He refused to tell whether or not he is a Communist. Declared Robeson: "Nineteen men are about to go to jail for refusing to answer that question. I am prepared to join them." Nobody asked him to go to jail. The subcommittee listened to a few other witnesses, decided to end the hearings. They had already run a day longer than scheduled...
...diplomatic skill. Israel and the Arab governments said that they had "unconditionally" accepted the Security Council's call for a four-week truce. But there were conditions to the unconditional: the Israelis had attached "assumptions," the Arabs "explanations." One of the chief obstacles to agreement was the question of immigration. Jews insisted that the Security Council resolution allowed unlimited immigration, even of men of military age. The Arabs claimed that Jewish immigrants were potential soldiers and should be barred during the truce period. By week's end Bernadotte said that this quarrel was "alone obstructing agreement." He submitted...
...doubt, however, that every American who cares about the outcome of the current international crisis should approach public issues clearly searching for the oft-criticized "lesser of evils"--if that is the sorry state of American politics at this point. In Illinois, for example, there is no question that democratic-minded voters should unite to support Professor Paul Douglas against Wayland "Curly" Brooks, who cast one of the House Committee's votes in favor of slashing the ERP appropriation; the third party should join in this unity. And when they convene in Philadelphia June 21, Republican Party delegates should repudiate...
...there had been any real question about which horse was king of Calumet, the question was answered. There had never been any doubt in the mind of wise old Ben Jones. Says he: "Unless he has a bad break, I believe you may see the greatest horse of all time before Citation is through...
...come? Dr. Carothers has some large answers for his big question. There is in Africa, he says, no shameful mystery about sex, no need for repression; there are no spinsters, no prostitutes. The African feels that his strength and stability come from the fact that he is a part of a larger organization; he does not have to bear economic trials & tribulations alone. He enjoys observing tribal rules, does not like thinking for himself: "There is no room for free thought . . . and even secretive, solitary or outstandingly successful people are suspect...