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...Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
...state. He announced his candidacy for the Senate seat of stodgy, conservative Raymond E. Willis. Characteristically he stated: "The Republican Party is the vehicle presently available to the people to make it the radical party in America. 'Radical' means 'fundamental'; therefore it means 'forthright.' And forthright includes those intellectual and moral integrities which are essential to the maintenance of our republic. ... I want to see the Republican Party become the dominant party...
...education in bloody Harlan County, Ky. In the words of Colonel James A. Kilian, camp commandant, Smith was "one of the best non-commissioned officers I've ever seen." In four perspiring hours on the stand, Smith denied all charges of mistreating prisoners. Outside the court, the disarmingly forthright Kilian supported these denials...
Power and Leadership. The forthright new U.S.-Latin American policy was voiced more clearly than ever last week in speeches by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden in New Haven and Manhattan. "The problem we face is not how to avoid using our power," said hard-hitting Spruille Braden. "We cannot possibly avoid using it, for it weighs in the balance just as much even when we do not deliberately apply it or when we deliberately seek to avoid applying it. . . . If a nation has great power, as we have it in abundance, it cannot shun the obligation to exercise...
...Forthright Professor Artturi Virtanen, Finland's Nobel Prizewinner (1945) in chemistry, broke the long silence of his country's intelligentsia. In Stockholm for scientific talks, he set all Scandinavia agog by bluntly telling a Communist newsman...