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This confession appeared last week in the foreword to a slim volume titled The American Revolution and Its Influence on World History, published by the Chicago Tribune at $1. Its author: the Tribune's xenophobic editor & publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick, Groton '99, Yale '03.
The evidence on the atrocities is convincing; so is the general culpability of the accused, confessing men. But U.S. spectators will be left wondering about Russian court procedure. (As Arthur Koestler observes in his new book of essays-see BOOKS: ". . . that those particular Germans committed those particular crimes was proved...
"There is no doubt of his greatness. He had already become by the common confession of both those who always agreed with him and those often disagreed, one of the greatest presidents we have over had, one of the greatest citizens among our many generations, perhaps the greatest single world...
True Confessions (current circ. 1,795,000) 'is now as straight-laced as a temperance speaker's corset. For two years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband...
One of Detroit's citizens stepped up to the microphone one night last week and told how he had "hit bottom" as an alcoholic. To underline his confession, some of the more melodramatic and sordid aspects of his past were dramatized. Then he told of his regeneration. Summed up...