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Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tzo Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
Meanwhile, the councillors' attempts to obtain the list leaked out; this brought the phone calls. All of the callers gave the police names of people whom they alleged were Communists. The police say that all these tips have been fruitless since not one name given was not already on the list
Last week Blacksmith Cianfone decided he had had enough. He had spent 30,000 lire of his own hard-earned money in fruitless visits to provincial party headquarters. In his forge he quietly burned a stack of confidential party documents. Then he summoned friend Coriddi, presented him with the party effects, including a cash book that showed a balance of 27 lire (about 4?). Coriddi agreed to offer membership in the local Christian Democratic section to the remaining 53 Communist Party members...
Protest against the qualities of Mr. Cunningham is obviously fruitless. Yet expression of indignation that a paper which purports to be troubled by the prevalent crime of character assassination sees fit to publish such obscenities as Mr. Cunningham's may not be entirely futile. A community's standard of decency may have appreciable effect on editorial policy of that indignation is expressed in the firm resolution to let the Herald be read only by those who find amusement in a bad boy's blasphemy and sportsmanship in Mr. Cunningham's temperament. Mark DeW. Howe '28 Professor...
...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...