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...four principles dominated the talks. They were that "aggression must fail," that the allies must press pacification and development programs in South Viet Nam, that the budding spirit of cooperation among Asians must be nurtured, and that peace must be pursued. The important thing, he said, was not to mislead Hanoi as Hitler was misled before World War II. "I know that some people scoff at my use of Munich to illustrate this point," he said. "But you just can't laugh at the principle of it. We cannot let our indifference be their invitation...
...toward campaign's end, was hammering at Democrat Frank O'Connor's "demagogy," lack of courage, foresight and "size.'" New York City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization and cash, accused Rockefeller of a "shabby attempt to mislead the people" and exhumed a four-year-old scandal in the state administration. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., a Democrat running on the Liberal Party ticket, was dismissed by O'Connor as a "failure at every job he ever held." Roosevelt merrily belabored both major contestants, while Conservative Paul Adams...
...watch a Thai translation of TV's Legend of Jesse James every Saturday night, along with 100,000 other fans. Then it got to bothering him to see a bad guy like Jesse ride off into the sunset unpunished at the end of each episode. "The series might mislead Thai youth into thinking wrong is right," the Prime Minister announced, and so he knocked poor Jesse right off the air-without even firing a shot...
...court was considering (Linkletter v. Walker) was unassailable. It backed off in a similar manner when it came to consider a rule forbidding prosecutors and judges from commenting on a defendant's failure to testify at his trial, even though, as Warren said, such comment "may sometimes mislead the jury...
...play. If anything, Salvo is likely to accelerate that trend. At least it provoked Red Star, the army newspaper, to demand still greater realism in depicting Soviet historical figures. Salvo, complained the paper, portrayed Trotsky as "a midget, whose actions were downright silly. Yet how could such a midget mislead the people?" Obviously, declared Red Star's own hatchetman, "he was an experienced and powerful demagogue"-and should be shown as such. It was also time for the truth about Stalin, who in the film has nothing to say and "just keeps puffing away on his pipe." Huffed...