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Dunleavy: "La Farge is an extremist ... The interpretation is not new with us, but is based on prior interpretations by the U.S. Supreme Court itself...
...satisfactory history; it is rather brief for the prosecution. The authors, like many others, believe Hiss a villain, Chambers a saviour. Other reporters, other spectators believe Hiss is the hero and Chambers is the devil. It is highly unlikely that there is a member of either extremist faction emotionally suited to record the Hiss-Chambers mess in the cool, balanced way that history demands
Gallup Poll. Calcutta's riots were one more triumph for the extremist Hindu Mahasabha Party, which opposes Nehru, accuses him of appeasing Pakistan. Even politicians who have been Nehru's friends have begun to turn against him on the Pakistan issue. Oldtime Congress Leader Tushar Kanti Ghosh used his daily paper, Amrita Bazar, to flail Nehru and urge war. He asked readers.for their opinions, got 200,000 replies, 87% of which favored armed attack or "police action" against...
...passed. Then, in the heat of an election, someone challenged Eamon De Valera: "Where are the Russian jewels?" Dev told how his old crony Harry Boland had hidden them at his home in Dublin. In 1922, as he lay dying from Free State bullets, anti-Free State Irish Republican Extremist Boland pledged his sister and mother never to give up the jewels until Ireland was free. Not until Britain left the Irish ports in 1938 did the Boland women turn over the treasure to Dev's government...
...fight against the Dutch ended, Soekarno turned relatively conservative, broke with the Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament...