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...that I am mad. I consider myself justified in returning the compliment. For the policy you are pursuing in Asia may be truly said to be an insane one, and is disquieting even your most trusted allies. Wherever you go, you spread war, revolution and misery. What do you reproach me with exactly? Not to have abased myself before the dollar? To have succeeded, where so many others in this troubled region have failed? With providing my enslaved Asian brethren with a "bad example" by my pride, patriotism and independence? With placing the interests of Washington after those...
...last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with Hitler: the Curia would remain silent in exchange for making Rome an open city. "That is a disgrace," wrote Tisserant. "I am afraid history will reproach the Holy See for having followed a policy which was convenient to itself, and for not having done much else. This is extremely...
Piety and Expedience. In this lively collection. Valentine, formerly president of the University of Rochester, offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that...
Dallas in particular, Texas in general, and the U.S. as a whole was in an agony of self-reproach. Somehow the conflicts of political and sociological difference, which are always bitter and are historically endowed with passion, had been translated into something unique to this day and age-a climate in which, and only in which, the assassination of President Kennedy could have occurred...
...once did. "At some point, now impossible to define," he reflects, "his face had ceased to inspire confidence of the right sort, even in bars." With no prospects George hangs on, in present-day London, a kind of frayed cuff whose very existence is a reproach to the bustling stuffed-shirt society he inhabits...