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After seven months of investigating, the grand jury of eleven men and ten women had decided that it could no longer delay in disclosing "this terrible lawlessness, this utter disregard of our state as well as our municipal laws." Missouri's Democratic Governor Forrest Smith, who appoints the board which controls Kansas City's police department, said in effect: Don't look at me; it all happened before my time...
...admission. "The Huk dissidents," he said, "have been gaining ground. We are being pushed back to where we were in early 1947." This admission disgusted even Quirino's own men. Senate Majority Leader Tomas S. Cabili denounced the government's policies for dealing with the Huks as "utter bankruptcy." "This confession of failure," he added, "has to be made even if it scares the wits off American capital or if we lose face abroad...
...chief consequence of this wave of headline after headline about Doom and Utter Destruction, of One-Night Wars and the horrors that lie in atomic destruction, is this: a growing sense of confusion and helplessness among our own people. And hopelessness and helplessness are the very opposite of what we need. These are emotions that play right into the hands of destructive Communist forces...
...baby gorilla has learned to utter three word-like sounds, Karl S. Lashley, research professor of Neuropsychology, disclosed yesterday...
...harder on his own Reds. Last week he summoned his countrymen to combat "Communist lawlessness." India's Reds, he said, were "lunatics or utter idiots" if they thought that "throwing a bomb here or burning a tramcar there could influence millions of people...