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...forsook her laboratory and fled to the Chinese Communists. For a while she made four-wheeled carts in an iron factory in the mountains of Shensi; soon she was attending a Communist "peace conference" that charged the U.S. with germ warfare. In a letter published in People's China, she wrote: "The Chinese with their bare hands are building up a new nation; while the Americans . . . are preparing to destroy mankind...
There is probably little hope for improvement, the current crop of songs being as germ-laden with IFD as ever. But for the man who wants to listen to nonclassical music without danger of infection, Hayakawa recommends Negro blues. They have shortcomings, says he, but always as a recurrent theme Negro blues assert "the will to live...
...known as "the little apartments" (a scant 50 rooms and seven bathrooms), and when this, in turn, became too public, Louis chopped it into smaller and smaller hideouts. In these "rats' nests" (as one courtier contemptuously described them), the King's absolute power lay hidden like the germ in a seed of wheat. The bulk of the palace was no more than a magnificent husk...
...Treatment. As a prisoner of war in North Korea, Colonel Schwable "confessed" to the U.S. use of germ warfare, a monstrous lie which Red propaganda sent around the world. He had been incessantly bullied and mentally tortured until -helpless, half-frozen and sick-he cracked. "Any man can be broken down eventually, one way or another, heroics notwithstanding," he said in explanation...
...April 5], but my blood boils when I think of the father, a U.S. Army colonel, who could so callously desert his child and its mother . . . This certainly is a cockeyed world when military authorities will pry into the motives of one colonel for confessing to the use of germ warfare by American flyers in Korea and allow another colonel who is guilty of a heinous offense to go free...