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Scientific Socialism. At the defense table sat hulking, curly-haired Eugene Dennis, one of the eleven defendants. He had dismissed his lawyer, announcing he would plead his own case. His purpose was obvious; as his own attorney he could make speeches in court and get in a form of testimony without being under oath. Dennis made his side's first address...
...Flew to Washington himself to plead...
When Acting President Li Tsung-jen sent Dr. Kan Chieh-hou, his U.S.-educated (Wisconsin & Harvard) political adviser, off to Shanghai last week, Li hopefully quoted a proverb: "Absolute sincerity will open metal and stone." It was Dr. Kan's job to pick a delegation to plead with the Reds for peace...
Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg rose in the Senate last week to plead for the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. What made it news was not his support of Acheson, for the Republican champion of the bipartisan foreign policy had often carried the ball for the Democrats, but the qualification he attached to his support. Said Vandenberg...
...speakers will plead for liberalism in China and Indonesia at an open meeting of the Cambridge chapter of Americans for Democratic Action at 8 p.m. tonight in the library of the Faculty Club...