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...have argued that the signers have displayed a lack of moral strength that should disqualify them from still holding posts of any responsibility in the service. But these men have not been cowards. The report stresses the inhuman program of horror which they underwent, and points up the extreme heroism of those who did not sign, rather than attaching any special blame to the men who broke under the strain. After days of beatings and starvation, the Communists would make a victim dig his own grave, then they put a pistol to his head, and gave him a final chance...
Discussing Dr. Ernest Jones's biography of Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (see BOOKS), Critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New York Times this week, expressed a thought for Columbus Day. Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that virtue consisted in making truth prevail against the resistance of society . . . Such a personality makes but a limited appeal to our increasingly 'other-directed' society with its ideal of blandness and cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer...
Another big falling-out was over troop reinforcements. The glory of Britain's Gloucesters and the heroism of the fighting...
...length, the committee wearied of the witness' reiteration of his wartime heroism. After several more futile questions and increasingly incoherent answers, the Senators gave up, tossed their strange fish back into his troubled waters...
...describe the pullout of what was left of the 2nd Division. By this time it was every man for himself. For six miles, men and vehicles ran a one-road gauntlet lined by steep hills occupied by the Chinese. The valley became a shooting gallery and a common grave. Heroism was as common as death, but heroism was not enough. What broke out of the gauntlet was perhaps the most completely smashed division in U.S. military history...