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...number of progressives-seven from one camp-were staying with the Communists. Most of the "pros" coming back appeared to be confused rather than dedicated men. Said an English medic captured with the Gloucesters: "Yesterday I knew the answers. Today I'm all mixed up. I read that pamphlet they gave us at Panmunjom-you know, the one that gives the aims of the U.N. Gentlemen, I've got a lot of thinking to do in the next few weeks...
...many details, Beria's official origins run parallel with those of Stalin, a coincidence historians regard with suspicion, for it was as a faker of history that Beria first came to Stalin's favorable notice. In 1935, Beria wrote a pamphlet glorifying Stalin as the hero of the Bolshevik struggle in Transcaucasia. False in almost all of its particulars, it made Stalin a hero without fear and without reproach, provided many phony arguments against Trotsky and other factions opposed to Stalin's extension of personal power...
Translated, this meant that bitter Joe McCarthy was offended by Republican Pusey's one venture into active politics: allowing his name to be used last year with those of 70 other Wisconsin citizens who approved a $1 campaign pamphlet entitled The McCarthy Record...
Another anonymous sender forwarded a pamphlet on "The Communist Technique." Still another sent a brochure on "Esperanto, The International, Auxiliary Language...
...passerby, puzzled by the vague wording of the come-on, asked what the test was for, he got a forthright answer: syphilis. If he was bashful or figured that this was none of his business, he got a pamphlet spelling out the dangers of undetected syphilis. But plenty of men (and a few women) interrupted their window-shopping or lunchtime sauntering to step behind the screens and take the test...