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...organization some of whose members have no respect for free institutions. Said Knowland: "Lest we be gradually edged into such a world state before we learn too late wherein we have been taken, I believe that every candidate for public office . . . should be asked to give a forthright view on this great public issue. It is later than you think...
...unsimple with language that he can never really be complex about people. His deserter who sees himself "reduced to one dimension," has nowhere been raised to even two. Indeed, the cardboard flatness of Fry's scoundrel almost foredooms the play as drama. And Tyrone Power acts him with forthright but misguided vigor: what the part needs is sinuousness and style. For the serenities of the countess, Katharine Cornell's personal graciousness is more in accord...
...year sounded off in the respected Il Mondo, decrying alike the government, the public and the "gangsters of the Appia"-all those, in short, who permitted or perpetrated the outrages along the ancient highway. Cederna's plan for restoring Appia Antica to its pristine beauty was simple and forthright: tear down every vestige of hideous modernity...
Meanwhile, supporters of censure action by the club emphasized the importance of taking a forthright stand on the McCarthy issue. "Are we scared, are we playing patsy?" asked one member. "We have to voice our opinions regardless of pressure groups," he declared...
Collins' forthright declaration at once set off characteristic trepidations in Saigon, Paris and Washington. Saigon's Journal d'Extrème Orient tartly reminded Collins that "the French government will not accept the least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...