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...carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane was surrounded by troops; it carried ten 45-gallon drums of fuel from home. When required to take on more gas (Standard-Vacuum) at Rangoon, the Communists gave the fuel a litmus-paper test. Although forced down by weather at Singapore, Chou got to Indonesia safely. At the airport, the Indonesians even went so far as to bar some of their own officials. Less melodramatically, Bandung's other featured performers streamed in. From Manila came ebullient Carlos Romulo, determined to fight...
...Will Listen? It is easy enough to say, with Elmer Davis, that eminent piece of journalistic litmus paper, that ex-Communists are bores. But Koestler is no bore. He transformed history into literature of such reality that it, in turn, became history. His masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, was based on the Moscow trials and told how 01d Bolshevik "Rubashov" confessed falsely to a plot against the party, because confession was "the last service" he could render the party. While Koestler was writing that novel, Walter Krivitsky, ex-head of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe, was writing a factual account...
...reason is that the symptoms of maladaptive behavior first crop up-in the school. Almost all the delinquents studied indulged in some misconduct at school, ranging from defiance, stubborness, and lying to stealing and sexual misconduct. The Gluecks suggest that the school could function as the "litmus paper of personality and character maladaption, reflecting early in the child's growth the acid test of his failure in his first attempts to cope with the problems of life...
...domestic industries. Abroad it meant seeking allies with the grim realism of war-and this was the second hardening in Acheson's thinking. "We are not dealing here," said Acheson, "with the kind of situation where we can go from one country to another with a piece of litmus paper and see whether everything is true blue. The only question we should ask is whether they are determined to protect their independence against Communist aggression...
Lesson for schoolchildren: Set everyone to giving the litmus test to everyone else, so that in private life teachers will think twice before criticizing and comparing, before saying what they believe...