Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorite Morsels. Just about everyone was on his side. These included the President's own Council of Economic Advisers and industry's middle-of-the-road Committee for Economic Development, who were agreed that it was no time to raise taxes. The Democrats' own conservative wing, led by Virginia's penny-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, welcomed the warning of New Dealer Douglas...
...polished oarsmanship of Elephant stroke Mike Shally and the men behind him, plus the coaching of James Ducy, assistant dean of admissions, have placed Eliot along side Kirkland in the ranks of serious Straus Trophy contenders. No official time was recorded...
...story, Young Man With A Future, a discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even his adventures with a refugee Russian girl...
...leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves on the next steamer for Hong Kong, but at least he has decided which side he is on: when the British skipper invites him to the bridge, Gordon chooses to remain with the huddled natives below...
...only story in the book that fails to come off, this one becomes a maudlin sermon, with the fuzzy moral that the Westerner should be on the side of the natives-whatever that is. Thus, better than any of the others, it makes plain what kind of blinkers Robert Shaplen's characters seem to wear. They are quite upset about what the Western impact may have done or failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals...