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What shook Vidali was to hear "Beria, Abakumov and others" named as being responsible for a job he had done himself. Tough Vidali, who lost his right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...
...made things very difficult for the comrades. Now that Tito is a not-to-be-abused friend, how is Titoism to be combatted? Once deviationism is blessed, where does it all end? An old-line hatchet man, no brighter than he should be, could only cry: "Don't shake our trees...
...Because the trend of present-day journalism is to be conventional, the colonel was considered eccentric . . . Despite his many hatchet jobs, he aroused thought on many public issues and dramatized them to try to stimulate public interest. Wish there were more men like...
...strength and weakness of Mother & Son lie, as always in a Compton-Burnett novel, in the long dialogues in which characters of every age vie with one another in calling a spade a spade, thereby turning it into a hatchet. Sometimes the talk is mere tasty acid drops ("I have not the courage to live on charity ..." "I have the courage but not the chance"); sometimes it is compactly expressive of universal human attitudes ("Let me persuade you to try our fruit. We can buy much better, but we take a pride in our own"). Many of the remarks...
Yours is the finest hatchet job I have ever read on two of the best maverick minds that any one state ever succeeded in corralling ...Why make it appear criminal for Morse to use that "brilliant mind" which you praise with faint damns? Why sanctify party loyalty over intelligence...