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...keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation from the audience, which gave the cast 25 curtain calls. Squirming as if he had no exit, Sartre moaned: "I don't disavow Dirty Hands . . . but I don't want to see it produced in one of the neurological centers of the cold war such as Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Guatemala's anemic anti-Communist opposition still nursed the faint hope that President Jacobo Arbenz might become fed up with his Red allies and disavow them, that hope was blacked out last week by the most forthright pro-Communist declaration the President has ever uttered. In a 2½ hour report to Congress on the state of the nation, Arbenz called the Communists "progressive democratic forces" and "the very wellspring of our regime." He said that to turn against the Reds and repress them, as "certain landowner groups and agents of foreign monopolies" have urged, "would be ... suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: The Indispensable Reds | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

Donlan made his attack after Howa's debate with Samuel P. Sears concerning the use of the Fifth Amendment. He claimed that if Howe doesn't resign, "Harvard should publicly disavow his utterances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislator Donlan Asks Howe Resign | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...using McCarthy back in September. And if that plan works, if McCarthy's speech does provide a final boost to the Republican campaign, it will put General Eisenhower in a position of obligation to the Senator. We hope, though little expect, that the General will have the courage to disavow this connection before it binds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Punch-Drunk | 10/29/1952 | See Source »

...other hand, a larger share of responsibility for the confusion of McCarthyism belongs to those Republican leaders who have either openly encouraged McCarthy or failed to disavow him, in the belief that he was making votes. Republican Senate Leader Kenneth Wherry recently declared that McCarthy had done the U.S. a "great service." Even Ohio's Robert A. Taft came to McCarthy's defense when Truman described Joe as "a Kremlin asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Weighed in the Balance | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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