Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the most significant aspect of the letter was not its content but its timing. The triumvirate had timed its first joint pronouncement to make clear that it was not part of the no-raiding pact or the unity parade. Without Lewis, McDonald and Beck, labor unity is more fiction than fact. Although few labor men expect McDonald to pull out of the C.I.O. or Beck to leave the A.F.L., their new phantom federation with Lewis produces more rather than less labor disunity. Obvious indications that the trio is making long-range plans to use its joint force in legislative...
...other words, France could no longer maintain the fiction that she was one of the world's Big Five, a fiction nurtured by De Gaulle and his successors, affirmed again and again by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, made statutory in the permanent seats of the U.N. Security Council. As events have shown, and as Mendès-France affirms in effect, it was just an illusion, and the effort of maintaining it in Indo-China proved disaster in fact. What Mendès is now proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power...
Sifting fact from fiction in The Secret Front is made more difficult because Hoettl has not told his personal story, that of a middle-level bureaucrat aching to be a master spy. Though he speaks of "my agents," he never actually commanded any, but merely processed the reports of actual spies and served as a specialist on Central European peoples...
Fierce-mustachioed, fiercely anti-Communist Author Guareschi* does not try to plumb the curious complex of politics, economics and emotional contradictions that causes millions of Italians to pray devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer...
...therefore does not bind Daphne du Maurier, who has written lively fiction and close-to-life history about Mary Anne Clarke, her great-great-grandmother...