Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grease the Guillotine." He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: "Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow." It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying...
TIME accepted the resignation, neither judging nor prejudging his recent disclosures. "Against the admitted disservice to his country of a decade ago," said TIME, "must be set the service we are convinced he is trying to perform for his country...
...around us as effectively, as government can. The ignorance that I think is most dangerous to us is our own. The Nürnberg experience therefore leads me to doubt the wisdom of many people who think we have to ... break in through the Soviet iron curtain, that we must somehow penetrate it with information, news and our own ideology. I agree that the iron curtain is regrettable. But I think it is ultimately more disastrous to those it shuts in than to us whom it shuts...
...pass these defendants a poisoned chalice," said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, "is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...Fisher, as a Young Republican, into NSA, places some of the responsibility on the Club. This point is not so tenuous as it may seem. Fisher is conspicuously unsophisticated when it comes to politics--this is an other of the points that became clear last night--and the YRC must have known that in an important position, he might become subject to curious influences. Yet the YRC informed all its members that Fisher would be good man to vote for as a Harvard NSA delegate...