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...Apologists for Laval's World War II behavior too often get lost in justifiable (but not entirely relevant) outrage at the conduct of his trial in 1945. (Nothing was proved against him; he was allowed almost no chance to make a defense; the jurors kept shouting things like "Skunk! A rope for his neck! A dozen bullets for his hide!") Cole avoids this by calmly letting the chilling facts of the trial speak for themselves. But in describing Vichy, he falls into another trap: the tendency to feel that Laval is somehow less guilty because Pétain, Darlan...
...Colorado Springs, Colo. Last week businessmen in the pine-covered foothills of the Rockies were bitterly divided over the proposed construction of an institution to be called Rampart College. The school, complained one director of the Chamber of Commerce, would be about as welcome in Colorado Springs as "a skunk at a family picnic...
...dander is up, his oratory can be blistering. His reply to criticism from Florida's Claude Pepper in 1946 is a Senate legend: "When I became a member of the Senate, a distinguished colleague said to me that it never paid to get into a contest with a skunk." When Hubert Humphrey, as a freshman Senator, had the temerity to call Byrd's Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures an example of "waste and extravagance," Byrd's floor reply covered five pages of acidic language in the Congressional Record. Humphrey has since told Byrd...
...This polecat . . . this vile, corrupt creature . . . this damnable skunk . . ." In these pungent terms, recalling a bygone style of political vituperation, Minnesota's Republican Representative H. Carl Andersen, last week on the House floor, attacked Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, who had written about Andersen's involvement in the Billie Sol Estes scandal (TIME cover, May 25). Andersen, senior Republican on the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, is so far the only Republican in Congress to be seriously tarnished by the Estes case: he took $4,000 from Estes for stock in a coal mine owned by the Andersen family...
Your reviewer states, apropos of Ardrey's African Genesis: "Man, being completely dominant, has no significant enemies among other animals." Considering the enemies we have among ourselves, I'd rather be a skunk. The skunk has only the great horned owl to worry about. Me-I've got Russia. Wouldn't you rather be a skunk-smell...