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...think of many real classics stretching all the way back to Washington's Administration, when John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R. had striking success in stigmatizing his opponents seems to me to overlook the long history of political invective, and to ignore the real (and much more dangerous) roots of McCarthyism...
...German officers that caught most eyes. But most Germans needed no further evidence of the wartime hatred of themselves among the Allies, and some even conceded, as did Bonn's General-Anzeiger, that "those who are outraged at the attitude of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt should not overlook the fact that Germany was partly to blame for the unhappy development." Among responsible West Germans, the most widespread reaction was the realization that all of the Allies were responsible for 1) the partition of Germany, and 2) the opening of Europe to Communist invasion. Said the Rhein-Zeitung of Koblenz...
...back on that campaign, it now seems quite significant that the General said little about the exact methods he would use. For the Federal security program has exhibited many faults in the past two and a half years, and the need for correction has recently become too urgent to overlook...
...Washington and Taipeh. This judgment of the Formosa crisis has been reached, very evidently, by calculating what we would do if we were the Chinese Communists ruling in Peking. But it is always well to remember that we are not they. Those who hold this conviction somehow manage to overlook both Red China's warlike preparations and warlike declarations. The forces for an attack are in place. Meanwhile, the. Peking government has been promising its people to take Formosa this year at the top of its voice. The Peking leaders have also been assuring leaders of neutral nations, like...
...would be noticed, they wrote letters in favor of various candidates to the city health system and the city retirement system boards. Thus defied, the Board of Education faced a dilemma. Should it risk firing six of the city's top teachers? Or should it simply try to overlook the whole affair...