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...leaders continued to examine their own consciences, some extraordinary events were occurring. The Czechoslovak Supreme Court decided to review all cases heard in the 1950s in a search for those who may have been falsely accused and unjustly convicted. After five days of meetings, reported the newspaper Rude Pravo, party watchdogs in the Foreign Ministry "demanded that the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia have a new face." Strangest of all, the party censors in the Interior Ministry announced that they wanted to go out of business. "We have reached the conclusion," they said, "that preventive political censorship should be abolished...
...that one could find without looking too hard a great many fine Marxist thinkers who observed all of the traditional standards of scholarship in their work, and whose presence would do credit to any university in the world. Men of the calibre of Christopher Hill, Edward Thompson, George Rude, Eric Hobsbawm, Albert Soboul, Maurice Dobb, Louis Althussen, and Herbert Marcuse, to mention only a few from a long list, were being referred...
...from the heady atmosphere of the race in outer space. Unless there is a rebirth of national leadership in the maritime field, stemming from public awareness and concern, we may find ourselves aroused from our present apathy by what the noted naval historian, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan called: "the rude awakening of those who have abandoned their share of the common birthright of all people...
...last five weeks have brought a rude awakening to the American military. The mounting fury of the Tet offensive and the battles for Saigon and Hue have revealed how grossly American intelligence has underestimated Communist military strength. For the first time since full-fledged American involvement began, the assumption that American military might would ultimately prevail is being seriously questioned...
...have to sweat to get the common people into his book and he doesn't take the trouble. So history becomes the battle of great thinkers, each a bit self-conscious in this un-Hegelian day and age, looking over his shoulder now and again to see if the rude folk are in fact trailing along behind...