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...knife on him, Dadier fights furiously, gets his arm slashed -and the class suddenly sides with him. The knifer is pinned down by other boys, and Dadier senses that there is a law of sorts in the blackboard jungle after all. He is even allowed to march the culprit off to the principal's office (and reform school), having won the right in trial by combat...
Nehru Is the Culprit. The U.S. is active, too. Mickey Spillane's paperback epics can be bought in most bookstores. Copies of Living America, a USIS house organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...
...reason why they are winning lies in India's poverty and ignorance. Another reason is racial: after centuries of white colonialism, the brown man and the yellow man are still moving away from the West. Yet, in Professor Redding's view, the No. i culprit is Nehru-style neutralism. Convinced of their moral superiority, India's intellectuals are too busy supporting "a posture of national rectitude, neutrality and innocence" to pay any attention to the Communist danger. Tyrants won't attack us, is their attitude. We're too good and kind...
...change in climate from the entry of Chinese Communists into the Korean war. "More American aid came for Formosa. The rulers began to feel more secure in their position, and old ideas which led us to our downfall on the mainland reared up their ugly heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport to his 1 5-year...
...Rothschild whom, ostensibly, he was asking for co- operation in an investigation. He was citing evidence of guilt and threatening punishment for it. And, indirectly at least, he was getting his judgment executed. In a word, he was treating Mr. Rothschild, not as a witness but as a culprit; he was requiring of him, not evidence, but a confession...