Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enabling us to understand each other's point of view." Was there a suspicion that he had come to the U.S. to talk of appeasement? "That word of ill omen . . . That is not true. We know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay." Then he spoke the one emotion-charged passage in his speech: "You may be certain that in fair weather or foul, where the Stars & Stripes fly in Korea, the British flag will fly beside them. We stand by our duty. We stand by our friends...
Hamilton, court-appointed and serving without pay, spoke for three hours, making a plea for pity and understanding of his client. He described Gold as the "most selfless man I have ever met in my entire life." He characterized him as a man who had often borrowed money from loan agencies to lend to fellow employees in need. He said that Gold had received no money from Russia, had entered the Soviet web believing that he was helping an ally. After that "he was entrapped...
...chief-of-correspondents for the Boston Globe says this: "I once spoke before several college publicity officers and I criticized several things about them. I told them democracy was at work when a newspaper covers the news," and the colleges shouldn't try to suppress it, he said. He had good words for the Publicity Bureau at Smith College. "There was a big hunt for a missing Smith girl who was supposed to have eloped and been killed. The publicity office at Smith did everything they could to help me get a picture of the girl. The head...
...Conant spoke for the Committee on the Present Danger. This 25-man group, which began its activities must this week, includes Conant, Presidents James Phinney Baxter, III '14 of Williams and Henry M. Wriston of Brown, William L. Marbury, member of the Harvard Corporation, Vannevar Bush, and Robert Gordon Sproul, Chancellor of the University of California...
This Mao who spoke with Wu's harsh voice was not an "agrarian reformer" (as the U.S. State Department had called him), nor a "town-meeting democrat" (as Owen Lattimore had called him), nor a Tito faithless to Moscow (as London and Washington had hoped). The Mao who spoke through Wu was China's most successful warlord since Kublai Khan. He laid down the terms for all Asia's subjugation. Upon that, Mao's senior partner, Stalin, prepared to build for the enslavement of the West. Together, Stalin and Mao had traveled more than halfway...