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Instead of taking up the agenda item, he read a "most urgent" telegram from the North Korean authorities, a denunciation, conveniently in Russian, of "American interventionists . . . barbarous attacks . . . cannibalistic cynicism . . ." It was cut from the same cloth of distortion and falsehood that the Russian delegate had unrolled in all his previous harangues (e.g., the real aggressors in Korea were "American imperialists"; only the Soviet Union desired a "peaceful settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF LAKE SUCCESS: Junior S.O.B. | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...farms and orchards. They swam the Rio Grande seeking this 'slavery.' But there is no record of anyone crossing any body of water to reach a Russian concentration camp. To pretend that the two evils are at all comparable is to perpetrate an enormous and dangerous falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Objectivity | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Certificate in order to discredit the armed forces and to promote their infiltration by "communists," and that the many other groups, including the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who subsequently joined the protest, are dupes of a red conspiracy to sell atomic secrets to the U.S.S.R. is a shocking falsehood. YPH opposed and opposes the NROTC certicate and the loyalty program of which it is a part because we believe that this program goes beyond any justifiable measures of national security in such a fashion as to constitute of itself a positive threat to the civil liberties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The NROTC Oath | 3/4/1950 | See Source »

...with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Hoffman, controlling his temper, replied, "That is an absolute falsehood." He did not know the man "from Adam's off ox ... I did not offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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