Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after Hoover's uncharacteristically strong statement was made public, he was summoned before the committee again, had to admit that the Under Secretary of State had not known what he was talking about. Hoover's State Department knows of no direct trade between Formosa and Red China; Hoover's State Department knows only that some $250,000 worth of Nationalist Chinese exports to British Hong Kong (Chinese medicines, camphor, citronella, etc.) were transshipped during 1955 to the Communists. When U.S. Senators and Chinese Nationalist diplomats expressed consternation, Herbert Hoover politely withdrew. His statement, he said...
Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...
Last week Allegro had to admit that his fascinating story was based not on facts in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but "largely on inference. All reconstructions of historical events," said he, "are inference...
...body of the hall: "Why didn't you kill him?" Answered Khrushchev: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." It is conceivable that Russia's top leadership, seeking further claim to public esteem among Stalin's innumerable victims and their relatives, might yet admit having quietly "removed" the mad dictator. It would explain many things (e.g., the fantastic Doctors' Plot), but it still would not purge the shared guilt in old crimes...
...concerning the police aspects of the regime, the average person felt unperturbed, since he rarely came into contact with them. Everyone--even the intellectuals--felt there had been a definite change for the better since the death of Stalin and the sudden departure of Beria. The simple and naive admit that the system was "bad." They felt on the whole that the injustices committed were "accidental," according to Malia. The more intelligent also admitted the system was bad, but they blamed Stalin...