Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, international pariah, seemed to be making progress toward getting back into the community of western nations. In the U.S. Senate last week, several members let it be known that they were ready to let bygones be bygones. Nevada's Democrat Pat McCarran started it by asking: Why should the U.S. not give Dictator Franco the same recognition it gives Dictator Stalin...
...figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...
...Poverty brooded threatens and failures multiply," brooded Novelist-turned-Scenarist Rupert Hughes, in a thoughtful piece for Variety. "There is no laughter left. The whips of scorn make the naked flesh wince and the bruised pariah cower and slink. . . . These are cloudy days for the motion picture world. And it is a world. A new world. But, like other worlds, it revolves from night to day and back to night and back to day again and again...
...surprise at the vehemence of Russian reaction. Mr. Vishinsky was not primarily slurring either Secretary Marshall's logic or his good intentions. Rather he was voicing Russia's unwillingness to weaken her power position. Deplorable, perhaps, but rather inevitable. From 1917 to 1933, actually to 1941, Russia was a pariah nation. Except for her satellites, she stands alone among a U.N. membership that proffers at least verbal homage to the ideology of the western democracies. To Russia the veto power is an indispensable protection against U.N. actions which would be undesirable from the Russian point of view...
...Russian slave class, as Dallin analyzes it, has three principal divisions: 1) habitual criminals; 2) dethroned bureaucrats; 3) politicals. In the pariah society that suffers a living death behind the barbed wire of the camp's, the criminals are the elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...