Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott drew some chuckles when he referred to the State Department (not the recent string of Secretaries of State) as those "poor devils." And when he made a sly remark about "omniscient" PM. "The Daily Worker" was always good for a laugh...
...aside from the gags and the wall-shaking blobs of oratory, the most lasting impression created by Elliott's speech was that the men in the Kremlin are black-hearted so-and-sos, while by comparison, we are a bunch of choir boys...
Professor Elliott stated that if would be dangerous to "lot 100,000 Jews enter Palestine from carefully indoctrinated countries." To whom is he referring? The 100,000 Jewish refugees sin DP camps in the American sector of Germany? Indoctrinated by whom? American Military Government oricutation squads...
Today's CRIMSON reported that in a speech before the United Nations Council Professor William Yandell Elliott assailed the "United Nations decision to partition Palestine. His reasons as reported in the CRIMSON seen to be that he considers both the Jewish community in Palestine and those refugees in DP centers in Europe as communistic. Professor Elliott said he spoke as an academic irresponsible. A knowledge of the facts of the situation forces one to agree with Professor Elliott's own assessment of his speech. It would seem that he has fallen prey to the very insidious propaganda being spread...
Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society