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...then putting our honorable generals and admirals on trial in Nuremberg, hanging and imprisoning them for merely obeying orders like good soldiers, and calling it justice. Ach, terrible, inhuman. And what were you Americans doing while we fought to keep the Bolsheviks out of Europe? You were bombing our cities, killing our women and children." Glances of bitter experience mixed with the Germans' current attitude of mature forgiveness for our sins assured silence for Professor Glaubich's further dialectic...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Doublethink Rethought | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

...Code is inhuman . . . We must admire the complete objectivity of our generals, who are, incidentally, relatively secure from torture because of their international fraternization system. General Dean is a very rare exception, but he came back alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...quit. They fear that, while he may pull out of each ride successfully, the cumulative damage to his system may be dangerous. Stapp pooh-poohs such talk, is determined to go on riding his rocket sled. He knows that what he is learning by pressing to the edge of inhuman endurance will hold true even when today's planes are in the museums and tomorrow's speeds have dwindled to slow-motion space crawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fastest Man on Earth | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...compounded the cacophony with his wildly incoherent themes. A third of the audience left before the end; those who stayed filled the hall with whistles and catcalls. Said a critic the next day: "As long as we do not have electronic ears, this noise must be qualified as inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Electronic Medley | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

With his white hair bristling, Vermont's usually mild Republican Senator George Aiken roared: "Why did Mr. Butler go to this inhuman length? . . . There can be only one answer. He does not want President Eisenhower to run for reelection. His statement could lead one to think he would be very happy if Mrs. Eisenhower were in poor health. . . Does Mr. Butler think he can make her sick by this kind of talk? . . . We have often heard the question asked, 'Just how low and evil and loathsome can an animal in human form get?' I think Mr. Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Heat About a Cold | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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