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Wire to "Arthur Lawson." Wechsler charged that the closed hearing was "a flagrant attack on free newspapers." The books, he said, "were just a flimsy pretext for a full-fledged investigation of the Post" and members of its staff, and he demanded that the testimony be made public. But McCarthy refused to do so unless Wechsler "completed his testimony," i.e., made a list of the others who were active in the Young Communist League with him. Wechsler agreed to list them, because "I do not propose to let you distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom...
...Handy Pretext. A flush of horror and foreboding spread across Israel. The bombing was the most serious anti-Communist incident since Moscow came out in the open with its anti-Jewish campaign (others: the firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This is as bad as the assassination of Count Bernadotte," said a civil servant. Will our people never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans...
...themselves. It would have been normal for the Kremlin to accept Israel's apologies: in 1927, for example, when a White Russian killed the Soviet ambassador to Poland, Moscow contented itself with a strong note of protest. This time the Kremlin obviously had been awaiting a pretext...
...retired "pajama" officers who have served as military dressing for Communist-front platforms. Justice Minister Negrão de Lima ordered police to ban all further "peace" meetings. "Evidence indicates," he said, "that notorious Communists are found among virtually all peace committees. These peace movements are merely a pretext for Communist propaganda...
...spite of the departing ladies, love's labor is not entirely lost: the swains may seek them again in a twelvemonth. Here at least Love's Labour's Lost is the true text of Shakespeare, even if elsewhere a mere pretext for shenanigans...