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...colonial people and oppressed people everywhere. But I must say that if Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
...James A. Linen...
...repeat errors of the past, the Central Committee has declared itself resolutely against the cult of the individual . . . We cannot let this matter get out of the party, especially not to the press. We should not give ammunition to the enemy; we should not wash our dirty linen before their eyes...
...James A. Linen...
Some of the damage is still comparatively minor, e.g., the crack across the top of Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe. But in the case of Diirer's "Dresden" altarpiece. the damage has resulted in almost total loss; the painting, done on fine linen, was apparently water-stained and rotted (probably while in the Germans' wartime hideout), then clumsily glued onto a wooden panel (probably by the Russians...