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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Others Speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Hails Lamont's Open Shelves | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

Mindszenty, the son of a poor peasant, had risen to the highest church office in his land. Some of Hungary's peasants, who used to flock together in crowds of 45,000 to hear him speak, have seen him, even in recent years, working the land at his mother's five-acre farm in the village of Mindzent. Hungarians, who were now asked to believe that Mindszenty was an anti-Semite, remembered his courageous wartime sermons attacking Naziism, in which he declared that "antiSemitism and the proceedings against the Jews are the shame of civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Human Frailty | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...University professors will discuss future American policy in forums tomorrow and Sunday. John K. Fairbank, professor of History, will address the Foreign Policy Association tomorrow afternoon at the Copley Plaza and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak before the Ford Hall Forum Sunday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank to Talk On China Future | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

July. In London, Lord Mancroft entered a Conservative Party meeting, expressed regret that he could not speak as scheduled because "My house is on fire." In Nashville, Julius Frankie Robinson explained to police why he had stolen his son from his ex-wife's sister: "To give him a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Dear Bertie" seems to have boggled and backtracked. He sent Lawrence an outline of his democratic ideas for lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Bertie | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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