Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give interviews is suicidal. The statement ascribed to me [from a San Francisco Chronicle interview] about the "muskets at Cressy" being "as effective in their time" as the atom bomb burdens me with two absurdities. The first was my fault; I should have remembered, even in the excitement of being interviewed by two fair women, that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased...
Joseph Stalin had used good words in a statement which he gave out to the world last week in the obvious hope that they would be accepted as an offer of peace. His real purpose quickly became clear. The good words had been timed to present Soviet Russia as a seeker of peace at the moment when the Western nations were concluding an alliance against Soviet aggression. Russia thus hoped to make the defensive North Atlantic pact look like an offensive act, and perhaps an unnecessary one. But while giving soft answers to a U.S. correspondent's questions, Russia...
Lawyer Abraham Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...variety of lessons from the monarch's unhappy fate. Some held it up as a warning against socialism; others as a horrible example of what happens when conservatism thwarts the popular will. It remained, however, for famed Communist Biologist J. B. S. Haldane to produce the most memorable statement on the beheading of King Charles. In the course of a 1,200-word article in London's Daily Worker, Haldane achieved a twelve-word sentence which ought to be placed in a cornerstone and preserved, as epitomizing the 20th Century's zany erudition and irrelevant dogmatism. Haldane...
Adding to the confusion early in the week was a startling announcement by Kwangtung's new governor, General Hsueh Yueh: he favored a southern coalition of provinces to continue the fight against Communism. The next day he meekly blamed the statement on "faulty translation," and sent a message to Nanking disavowing any intention of upsetting Li Tsung-jen's peace negotiations. Concluded Governor Hsueh: "I have no ideas of my own. Please do not worry...