Word: doubletalker
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...remained for Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell to make the first effective public reply to the political doubletalk that the G.O.P. sponsors of strong civil rights legislation are somehow standing in the way of progress by opposing the Senate's weak version. "It is very disappointing to me," said Mitchell at a news conference in San Francisco, "to see so many of those to whom we usually look for support in the field of civil rights running from the field before the whistle is blown...
...advanced training in doubletalk, no classroom in the Communist world last week could match Peking's Huai Jen Hall, site of the fourth meeting of Red China's National People's Congress. Led off by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, July 8), Peking's Marxist mandarins popped up, one by one, to assure the pseudo Parliament that the nation was in splendid shape. Then, one by one, they cited statistics demonstrating that the best-laid plans of Mao's men have gone agley...
...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...
...past year. However, it should be made clear that this is one of the self-sown seeds of American destruction. Negro crime will diminish in proportion to the amount of participation afforded the Negro in American affairs. This Negro crime is the price America pays for her racial doubletalk and social hypocrisy...
Budapest-born Arthur Koestler was the first to dramatize the theory that a strong shot of ideological doubletalk, administered with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...