Word: shylocking
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Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...
...Shylock Marshall. In the next issue of the Gazette, it was Secretary of State George Marshall's turn. This time the Soviet puffer was Nikolai Pogodin, winner of 1939's Stalin prize for his play The Chimes of the Kremlin. Ambassador Smith did not waste his breath protesting. Excerpts...
...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...
...this militaristic old man letting himself be carried away with conceit? . . . Honest people throughout the world did not believe that militant reaction would raise its arm against the U.N. so soon. It is this sinister duty that has been taken on his own shoulders by the Shylock of Wall Street, George C. Marshall...
...think RFC has been grossly mismanaged," he cried. "They have been in bed with Wall Street." Like a "Shylock" demanding its "pound of flesh," RFC in cooperation with Wall Street had played "power politics" with the Erie Railroad, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, "and half a dozen other bankrupt railroads." By appointing former RFC employees as trustees of the bankrupt roads, RFC had in effect created an evil "voting trust." As a result, Young declared, "those railroads have been grossly, almost criminally mismanaged...