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Virtually the only man who stood in a clear-cut position was blunt Bob Taft. The paradox of his position this week was that he was far more liberal than most of the right-wingers who supported him, and generally as liberal as some of the groping rebels who wanted to kick...
...Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright, British Barbara Ward...
Last spring, when the highly volatile Arab League embarked on a Holy War against the infant state of Israel, the entire civilized world shuddered. In blunt and savage terms, the Arabs dedicated themselves to the complete extermination of the new Jewish nation. It was to be a grisly purge and there were grave fears in the United Nations that an explosion in Palestine would wreck the fragile postwar peace...
From a University point of view, the priority of this Office over freshman activities is unquestioned. But Freshmen have a point of view too,--and it's pretty blunt. Straus was intended for Yard social activities, and not University business enterprises. And this year, when plans for freshman affairs are buzzing as never before, such a bureaucratic squeeze-play is having a damaging effect. The University should reconsider Operation Straus, fit the Advisor's Office in somewhere else--if possible--and give freshman society back its much-needed common room...
...right or wrong? The question might soon be settled by history. The military news indicated that he might have been tragically wrong, for reasons which he himself had foreseen eight months ago. In February 1948, Marshall had appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, had there engaged in a blunt exchange with Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd...