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...rebuttal: to defend Acheson was to defend Alger Hiss. Even Harry Truman curtly refused comment. In the silence, the chatty, tea-table voice of Eleanor Roosevelt sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt, who obviously had not been paying much attention, was "very troubled" by the Hiss case: "It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt," she said. She was either unaware of, or determined to ignore, the corroborating evidence introduced by the Government to prove the charges of its chief witness, Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier...
...Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, sportwriters are expected to toe the party line as carefully as reporters and editorial writers. Last spring, Sport Columnist Lester Rodney publicly apologized for a misstep: he had been guilty of subtle "white chauvinism" in failing to condemn New York Giants Manager Leo Durocher for his Polo Grounds row with a Puerto Rican fan (TIME...
Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
Collectively the Niemans boast a total of 19 children. Their families are living in houses in and around Cambridge, and the journalists condemn local rents as "higher than anywhere else...
There is a proper way to see this film: forget the plot, its inconsistencies and implausibilities, and condemn the few points where farce takes over. Just sit back and savor the conversation of a lot of very amusing people...