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Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...
...last July the commission got another rude shock; the circuit court of appeals upheld Dollar. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, thus, in effect, ruling that the line should be handed back to Dollar...
Equally rough was Pravda's reply last week to President Harry Truman's San Francisco speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Not Russia but the U.S., fumed the Kremlin mouthpiece, had blocked the path of peace. Truman's statements to the contrary were "rude, ridiculous pretensions [that] could originate only in the mind of a warmonger...
...troops and its own people"). Vishinsky also quoted from General Joseph Stilwell's memoirs, in which Stilwell described the situation in China as the "Chinese cesspool" and the Nationalist regime as a "gang of murderers." Vishinsky elaborately apologized for such language: "I should not want to say one rude word in any way, shape or manner. These are the words of the commander in chief of the United States troops in China...