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Akahata, Tokyo's Communist newspaper, denounced the circulation of Shiga's memo as "subversive." At first Shiga declined to make a public retort. "Intraparty affairs," he said, "should be solved within the party." Last week Akahata repeated and amplified its reprimand; it also printed a terse apology from No. 3. Then, within their central committee, the comrades rehashed the issue in hot & heavy argument. The solution: a statement reproving Shiga but leaving him still in his influential post. Japan's lesser comrades looked on, baffled and bewildered by the complex top-level schism...
Their opponents retort that computers are mere tools that do only what they are told. Professor Aiken, a leader of the conservatives, admits that the machines show, in rudimentary form at least, all the attributes of human thinking except one: imagination. Aiken cannot define imagination, but he is sure that it exists and that no machine, however clever, is likely to have...
...most Germans regard parliamentary government. But the incident could not obscure the fact that the Paris and Bonn agreements had added greatly to the prestige of the West German Republic, just three months old. For his critics who said he had bargained away too much, Adenauer had a stinging retort -one which only a German of political courage would dare to make in 1949. Snapped Adenauer: "Who do they think lost the war, anyway...
...tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America"), or she met the fierce retort: "Our manners are very good manners, and we don't wish any changes from England...
Whenever Roman Catholics take a public drubbing for their policy in Spain, they can retort, as the Jesuit weekly America did last spring: "Let us look at Sweden. It has an established Lutheran church, apparently unaware (like England) of the 'great Protestant principle' of separation of church and state. Without special permission of the Swedish government, the Catholic Church can own no property in Sweden, as Protestants can do in Spain ... Do American Catholics, or indeed, Swedish Catholics (5,809 in a population of 6,000,000) shout about Lutheran 'persecution' of Catholics in Sweden...