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...first, entitled "Peter's Chains," addressed itself sharply to the persecution of Catholic priests and communicants behind the Iron Curtain. "We in the free countries," the bishops said, "still speak of a cold war; these men and women are enduring the bitterest, the bloodiest persecution in all history...
...until so proven. Few people remember today that Truman had all he could do to ward off those who would appease Russia at every turn. They do not remember that such obvious moves as the Greek-Turkish Aid program and opposition to Tito's thrust for Trieste aroused the bitterest condemnation. Few remember the Henry Wallace speech attacking Truman for war-mongering. Indeed, in the light of the rampant leftism of the times, Truman deserves congratulations, and not abuse, for adopting the course...
...Northwest, where the private v. public power fight is the bitterest, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay last week made a significant decision; he gave the private companies a better break. For the first time, they were permitted to sign 20-year contracts with the Bonneville Power Administration, giving the companics long-term assurance of low-cost power from the big federal dams. For years, the private companies could get no contracts at all. Then two years ago they got to sign agreements, but only for five years...
After Joe McCarthy subjected New York Post Editor James A. Wechsler, one of his bitterest editorial enemies, to a five-hour inquisition last spring, a special eleven-man committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors sat down to decide whether the incident was a general threat to the freedom of the press. Last week the committee reported that it could reach no decision, vaguely concluded: "It is the responsibility of every editor to read the transcript and decide for himself...
Chinese intervention transformed a "police action" into a major war-an "entirely new war," Douglas MacArthur called it. In the U.S., it provoked the bitterest soul-searching since the Lend-Lease decisions of 1940-41. The debate opened old sores and inflicted new ones all its own. MacArthur wanted to ease the strain on U.N. forces in Korea by a blockade of the Chinese mainland and by air attacks beyond the Yalu...