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Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
...have built up a good relationship to my people, although many are opposed to me as a Catholic priest. But I tell them the truth whether they like it or not. . . . Only one thing I never do: I never scold them. I still have the impression [that] many are receptive to the ideal of democratic moral regeneration...
...well-defined steps. Among other things, he must admit that he cannot take it or leave it; he has got to quit cold. Members are ready, day or night, to answer a desperate call for help from a backsliding member. Secret of the A.A. help: fellow alcoholics do not scold nor misunderstand an alcoholic who wants to quit; they know exactly what hurdles he has to be helped over...
...peacetime. Even if they can make ends meet by digging into their own pockets, they are likely to think again before going to Washington. The reason was well supplied last week by Michigan's flap-jawed Republican Representative Paul Shafer, an amateur magician and a professional scold...