Word: sheean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense this conflict of loyalties which makes it so difficult to deal with even the best-intentioned of men when the racial conflict is in question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants...
Leland Stowe, Raymond Clapper and Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...
This House Against This House is a pretentious title for Mr. Sheean's mixture as before: part tract, part treatise, part I-was-right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long, rambling, Shesanesque introduction and concludes with a brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks...
...Sheean fought World War II in Africa, Europe, Asia, Washington, D.C. Sometimes his job, and his living quarters were so pleasant that "I felt heartily ashamed of [our] comfort [while] our combat units, replete with Spam, [were] contesting with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such...
...China. India, which he had never visited before, inspires some of the most nearly apoplectic, most polysyllabic (and shrewd) passages in the book. The "impermeable autochthonic self-responsive misery" of the Indians depressed him almost as much as "neo-Fascism" had in Italy, though for entirely different reasons. Sheean regards Britain's stay in India as a "silly impertinence," but says that India's major problem is the Indians themselves...