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...freshman debating teams will discuss opposite sides of the topic, "Resolved: That Congress Should Refrain from Investigating Communism in Schools and Colleges," here and at Princeton tonight...
Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
Ever willing to wait, he told Mao Tse-tung to come to terms with Chiang Kai-shek,. dissolve his army and refrain from making a bid for power in China. But in 1949 Mao drove Chiang Kai-shek out of the Chinese mainland, and proclaimed a People's Republic of China. Then Mao began the familiar technique: purge, consolidate, purge. The addition of China's 400 million to Russia's 200 million was the high tide of world Communism. Stalin's empire occupied a fourth of the world's land surface, claimed a third...
...have just read your Feb. 9 article about the Texas airport dispute. Please in the future refrain from using the words Dallas and Fort Worth in the same article. It has been my pleasure to live in both cities and I can honestly state that Dallas is just a mass of brick and concrete compared with the beautiful city of Fort Worth ... If Dallas should pave Love Field with gold bricks, it would still not have the beauty or value of the Fort Worth airport...
...wrong. We should not be continually calling foot-faults on such occasions . . . particularly ... in the first months of a new Administration. 3) When we believe the Republican Party and the Administration to be in serious error, however, we should speak out vigorously . . . But in doing so we should refrain from attacking the motives or character of the President, or of our opponents...