Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this painful episode. His book (published 14 months ago in England), was written before publication in the U.S. of The Shelley Legend, (TIME, Nov. 19, 1945), which does a lot to set the record straight. Author Robert Metcalfe Smith proves that Mary Shelley deliberately used forged letters to conceal Shelley's guilt in the suicide...
...modern, stylishly bohemian society in which it is set, this naughty old story (from Louis Verneuil's moth-eaten play, Jealousy, recently revived on Broadway as Obsession) seems doubly ridiculous. It is impossible to believe that 1) Bette would try to conceal her past, or 2) Henreid could be deceived for a minute...
...only real objection to delayed answers, Lippmann supposed, was that they "would be ghost-written and would, therefore, conceal from the public the quality of the man who is President." Said Lippmann hopefully: "there would remain the whole field of domestic politics and internal policy...
...since the U.S. has no reason to conceal figures on its foreign garrisons, U.S. opposition to partial disclosure may have been a blunder. Scarcely had the Security Council rumpus subsided when the figures were revealed by the New York Times's military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin. One interesting point: in China (wildly decried by Russia and her friends as a prey to U.S. imperialism), the U.S. maintains only 29,000 troops, while Russia has 75,000 in China's northern provinces...
Last week, with only one junior officer still to be sentenced, the Army seemed ready to close its books on the case. At least two questions remained unanswered. Was the conviction of Kilian just a smokescreen to conceal a policy ordered from above? How far could a superior officer go in disclaiming the acts of his juniors? Editorialized the Washington Post: "Generals Yamashita and Homma were convicted. . . . Is the principle of a commander's responsibility for Japanese only...