Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Feb. 21, correctly reported that American Medical Association will "fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail." Your article, however, carried erroneous statement: "The A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions" . . . Both the Blue Shield and Blue Cross plans have had and will continue to have the vigorous support of A.M.A...
That, to the West, fighting for survival, is the most important point in an important new book. Paul McGuire's There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful...
...think that its main fault lies in the plot. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be that its main fault lies in the interpretation given its plot by this or, I believe, any non-Italian-speaking spectator. Some crucial situations in the film seemed incredible and several episodes were confusing to follow; when shown in its native country this would undoubtedly not be so. (There is a paradox in this--the half-a-dozen great Italian post-war films imported to America have had a larger audience here than in Italy. Since they have all dealt with the agonies...
...world government. They want people to think about world government; they want to get people interested in their program. The U.W.F. claims that this program is far from "starry-eyed." The Federalists don't propose immediate disarmament just as they don't propose a military defense alone. A policy statement made last year says that the U.W.F. is "under no illusions concerning the character of the Soviet regime," but "there may be a chance" that the Russians will accept some sort of federation. If that should fail, the U.W.F. figures that a partial union, presumably along Streitian lines, would have...
...statement in the CRIMSON to the effect that "Radcliffe cannot afford to waive tuition for a D.P. student" is therefore somewhat misleading in the light of the actual facts. Mildred P. Sherman Dean of Radcliffe College