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...think we need to be unduly excited about what's happened. If there has been lack of consultations on either side at any time, the result will be closer consultations at all times . . . there is substantial understanding between us as always, with the aim of maintaining and developing frankest exchanges on all points...
...gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France's most discussed, most influential man of letters, septuagenarian Novelist Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. German patrols, Gide explained, had captured a copy of his latest, frankest journal of events and he had been in hiding for a month. He soon buttonholed an Eighth Army photographer, plunged into an enthusiastic discussion of pre-Nazi German poetry...
Good Fellows, No Brains. In his last interviews with Lawrence Dennis ("my most sensational . . . during my . . . years as investigator"), "Pagnanelli" got the frankest of statements on American fascism's tactics for the future-a statement that he urges the reader to consider well. Said Dennis: "Our only hope from now on is Congress. I've been needling them . .. and I intend to keep on." But it would not, he indicated, be plain sailing, since in his opinion not even the "best" Congressmen and their friends were entirely capable of introducing the New Order. He was specific about...
Last week the mental suffering on Guadalcanal was described to the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit by Lieut. Commander Edwin R. Smith of the Naval Hospital at Mare Island, Calif. In the frankest statement on war's psychiatric casualties yet passed by the Army or Navy, he discussed "a group neurosis that has not been seen before and may never be seen again." The neurosis occurs in steady men who have been subjected to prolonged warfare without rest or hope-as on Guadalcanal. Said Commander Smith: "This was not the sudden and quickly terminated but terrific rape of Pearl...
Faced with the problem of reporting the true state of the battle while withholding facts which might comfort the enemy, few generals find it easy to state the bitter, unqualified truth in communiqué or other public utterance. One of the frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...