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First with the Smear. He got ten weeks in which to confess publicly that he had erred in 1) not ordering the 1944 rising against the Germans, and 2) quarreling with party leaders. Snapped Guingouin: "When are they going to make their auto-criticism and admit their fundamental error?" The party leaders replied by firing him from all executive party jobs. Guingouin fought back with a stream of letters to Communist journals and a confidential memo saying party bureaucrats had "lost all touch with the working masses." He hinted that, if expelled from the party, he might tell...
Many women will sadly misunderstand your Oct. 20 article, "Unsuspected Cancer." The figures quoted from my paper-"90% chance of survival for five years, and 65% chance of living ten years"-do not refer to the very early cancers usually discovered by vaginal smear, but refer instead to localized invasive cancer (Stage 1) of many months or years growth. Stage 1 cancer used to be considered early cancer; but with the vaginal smear we are now detecting cancer long before Stage 1 is reached. These very early malignant lesions (Stage 0) have not yet invaded the tissues, and are curable...
...Boston, where Democrats fear the Communist issue may cost them Catholic votes, Stevenson declared that the Republicans had done little to combat Communism either abroad or in the U.S. Said he: "Men who seek to fight [Communism] by indiscriminate accusation of their fellow citizens-by spreading suspicion and smear and slander-are serving no one but the Communists themselves ... In fighting Communism at home, I shall rely on such experienced guardians of our security as J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Bedell Smith of the Central Intelligence Agency. These men fight Communism as it must...
...chairman of the subcommittee: "I am disappointed at the position taken by Mr. Trygve Lie ... to give these people ... a paid vacation. His action is beyond my comprehension." The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear...
Meanwhile, Edward Schlesinger '56 squelched attempts yesterday to get all college political clubs to endorse a statement upholding Schlesinger and MacLeish and denouncing McCarthy's "irresponsible smear" of them...