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...trouble to conceal their suspicions and their differences. While they debated whether or not to begin now or later a study to decide whether to consider drawing up a pact to protect Southeast Asia, Chou was already engaged in urging some of the prospective members (India, Burma, Indonesia) to sign non-aggression pacts with China...
...third technique, said the Star, is the "Nobody-Even-Thought-About-McCarthy -and -We -Just -Can't -Conceal -Our-Surprise. [This] is frequently carried to extraordinary lengths. One of the best examples occurred recently in Washington. 'Meeting in the midst of widespread controversy over the activities of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy,' one story began, 'the Daughters of the American Revolution completely ignored the Wisconsin Republican . . .' DAUGHTERS IGNORE MCCARTHY, the headline said...
Ralph Flanders found "much to praise and much to deplore" in McCarthyism. When McCarthy does an effective job of cleaning out the "cobwebs and spiders" left in the cellarway by the previous Administration, Flanders said, that is praiseworthy. "But let him not so work as to conceal mortal danger in which our country finds itself from the external enemies of mankind...
...hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
Papal Carpetbagging. Lucrezia's big trouble was her family. Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, a crafty, sensual and deceptively charming Spaniard, got himself elected Pope in 1492 as Alexander VI. Alexander was an unashamedly worldly pontiff who made no effort to conceal Lucrezia and his seven other bastard children - indeed, thought nothing was too good for them. For eleven years, in one of history's most painstaking carpetbagging expeditions, he virtually turned the papacy and its pos sessions into a family preserve...