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Professor Winspear concludes that the picture of Socrates by Plato, himself violently antidemocratic, was not a true one, but "the extremely adroit and facile plea of a partisan." He believes that the evidence "should make us very hesitant to accept the conventional explanation that a high-minded and guiltless philosopher fell an innocent victim to the . . . passions...
...first novel, The Gray Notebook, begins when pious, portly Widower Oscar-Marie Thibault discovers that his 14-year-old son Jacques has run away from home after getting mixed up in a scandal at school. Guiltless of anything worse than writing high-flown, affectionate, freethinking notes to a young Protestant, young Jacques flees to Marseille with his easy-going friend Daniel, paces the streets and broods about right and wrong while Daniel is befriended by a warm-hearted girl who solves some moral problems for him without a moment's thought...
...Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet military experts into the anti-Japanese camp, yet leaving Moscow technically guiltless of having taken hostile action against Tokyo. According to the Nanking version, last week Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Vasilevich Bogomolov, who recently flew from Nanking to Moscow on a secret mission (TIME, Oct. 18), is about to fly back with news that Outer Mongolia will soon rejoin China with...
...ventilate the whole situation, Premier van Zeeland insisted on a special meeting of Parliament. King Leopold, whose favorite Premier is Paul van Zeeland, may delay the meeting till passions have cooled somewhat. Well he knew that though Paul van Zeeland might be personally guiltless, it was his duty as Premier to know what monkey business the directors of the State bank of issue were indulging...
...treaty violation. In these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually the guilt of Germany was voted by eleven nations of the League Council without a single dissenting voice...