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...life, a river of genius," but no one knew whether to laugh or cry when "it turned out that the Russian was reading the part . . . that condemned the Germans ... for taking men and women away from, their homes and sending them to distant camps where they worked as slave labour...
...settlement of the Polish question must be found-not because the principles on which the Western powers entered the war would be violated by a Communist slave state in Poland, but because the question embarrassed Roosevelt in domestic politics. He did not make the case for justice to Poland. He never used in the Polish bargaining the enormous leverage given him by Russia's economic need or by prospective U.S.-British control of West Germany. He simply begged Stalin, as one politician to another, not to embarrass him with the Polish voters...
...Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested he: "People who have not spent the last five years in a cellar are more likely to know the truth than...
...materialized; 2) the consumer-goods program had failed; 3) there was a nationwide food shortage. There were some other failures he did not have to point up: the first suggestion of relaxed control had been followed by the East German riots and by a ten-day strike of slave laborers in the Vorkuta prison camps. Attempts at "honest art," e.g., Novelist Ehrenburg's The Thaw, merely confused Soviet writers accustomed to writing propaganda, including Ehrenburg himself, and honesty in art was incomprehensible to painters of the approved anecdote...
...brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets set to floor all previous Russells with one haymaking swing. He quotes with approval a famous epigram of David Hume: "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions." Though he claims to believe this, Russell, like Philosopher Hume, is not entirely happy about it, and proves it by launching into his favorite fable-how sweet Grandmother Reason is gobbled up by the big bad wolf called Passion...