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Next day, Adenauer's government offered 500,000 marks ($119,000) to anyone who would come forward in the next three months with facts that would ex plain the mystery of Dr. John's strange exit. But though West German and U.S. intelligence officers still profess to be in doubt whether Dr. John defected or was lured into a trap, German public opinion had hardened into the almost unanimous belief that he defected...
...that includes Turkey, Greece, Thailand and Liberia, plus the votes, or abstentions, of whatever countries refuse to consider the issue "unimportant." A maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural resolution, like one adopted last year, to postpone a head-on vote. Some countries which profess, out of fear, to favor Red China's admission could be expected to vote for such a resolution on the pretext that it is a "question of timing...
...beliefs on which we have founded our form of government and our hope of a better world are under attack . . . The defense of mankind against these attacks lies in the faith we profess-the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Men and women who have this faith will refuse to bow to force. They will refuse to worship the power of the state. They will refuse to set their own nation and their own group above criticism. For they understand that above all these works of men there is the eternal standard of God by which we shall...
Only four pages of the book are devoted to Shapley, and the authors also examine charges against John Stewart Service, Owen Lattimore, and others in an attempt "to throw down a bold challenge to the writers, teachers, and politicians who regard McCarthyism and Communism as twin evils and who profess to see in the former the more imminent danger to our freedom...
...office for the same reason that other folks run for a commuters' train: to keep their jobs or win better ones. Politics is their business, and to its fortunes they commit their education, their economic well-being and their egos. Since they are loth to admit this, they profess to hear the shrill call of public invitation. By last week the whistle was singing in the ears of several political commuters. Examples...