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...issue an Executive Order to the armed forces right now, telling our men that, if captured by the Reds, they may sign any document the Communists want them to, or appear on radio or TV programs and deliver any script the Reds hand them. Tell them they can confess that the United States poisoned Lenin and Stalin; they can call the President a capitalist, warmongering dog of Wall Street; they can broadcast peace appeals, agree to settle behind the Iron Curtain when the war is over, and sign long-term leases on houses in Moscow. Give the Reds anything they...
...executive com mittee of the Socialist Party voted last week to expel 16 Deputies who defied party orders by voting against both EDC and the Paris accords. The Socialists, with 105 seats in the Assembly, are the largest single party in the Assembly. If the 16 rebels refuse to confess their sins and return contritely to the fold, the largest single party in the Assembly will then be the Communists (98 Deputies...
Before the Senate, Scelba made no pretense that Italians had got all they wanted. "I would fail in my duty," he said, "if I did not frankly confess that these frontier adjustments grieve us deeply." But he added triumphantly: "After ten years the flag of the fatherland will again fly over the town hall and the Church of San Guisto of Trieste." At that, the whole Senate rose to its feet, the center and right cheering, only the Communists silent. (They could not afford to oppose the universal Italian yearning to have Trieste, but neither could they stand...
...British Medical Journal, Dr. Kelvin simply passed on one ex-baldhead's "feasible suggestion that the hirsutic embellishment is due to the tablets' improving the circulation of the scalp by their vasodilating [artery-widening] action." He offered no theory of his own. Instead, he added lamely: "I confess that I have not yet personally tried the tablets to cure my own baldness...
...confess honestly that A Fable [his latest novel, TIME, Aug. 2] does not please me. It took nine years to write that book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...