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Many of us feel that "Freddie Francisco," despite the name, is one of the ablest writers in this vicinity. We would appreciate very much information as to his name...
...lose all validity. Neither con a person's views on foreign policy be used as an adequate test of his right to be called a Liberal. Most Liberals are strong supporters of the U. N.; many of them over an even more powerful would organization. But some of the ablest advocates of the U. N. are men who can by no stretch of the imagination described as liberal. a Liberal will probably approve of action against Franco and Peren; he will probably favor a friendly and reasonably attitude toward Russia, multilateral control of atomic power, world wide cooperation on economic...
...Communist Party is ... a tiny, privileged ruling class marked off from the great herd it governs as sharply as any ruling class in history. It attracts the ablest and most ambitious men, because it is the only ladder to power and to all the dignities that go with it. It also attracts some sly scoundrels, but these I believe are rather rare exceptions...
George Bernard Shaw's thought for the week: the Nazi war criminals were just "extremely ordinary men" given too much power?and: "Is it fair to give common fellows power that would turn the heads of all but the ablest five percent of the population . . . and hang them because they behaved like Torquemada . . .? Ought we not rather hang ourselves for being such fools...
...royal that ended only because Paraguay's able-bodied male population shrank to 28,000. Eleven years ago Paraguay outpointed Bolivia in South America's last war, over the Chaco. Paraguayans still allot almost half their budget to the military, supply Buenos Aires with its toughest cops, ablest soccer players, and remain convinced that, should they choose to extend their ancient, river-bound domain (see map), they could do so in any direction...