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Until late 1942, Pinto was assigned to British Counterintelligence, a body which requires gentlemanly behavior of its agents. British spycatchers are not permitted, as Gestapo agents were, to pull out fingernails and toenails, or to crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond...
Last week the Republican view on this issue was baldly stated by Senator Styles Bridges and Representative Joseph Martin. They wrote: "Throughout the 82nd Congress, the Democratic Administration continued its stubborn resistance to the exposure of Communists, fellow travelers, other subversives and their sympathizers in Government...
Revolving Door. For Philip Murray, the Irish labor boss with a Scottish burr, a gentle manner and a stubborn will, last week's settlement was the biggest victory in the procession of victories he has won since organizing Big Steel for the C.I.O. in mid-Depression. Then (1936) he found steel with an average wage of 66? an hour. The settlement announced last week will raise the average steelworker to around $2.05 an hour: the contract grants a straight 16? plus about 6? in fringe benefits. In other words, since 1936, Murray's steelworkers have beaten inflation...
Among the stubborn ghosts that stalk the mind of modern literate man are the great books he intends to read some day. High on many such lists-behind War and Peace, but well ahead of the Summa Theologica-is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From now on, procrastinators will have to find fresh excuses: Gibbon has been streamlined. Dero Saunders, one of the editors of FORTUNE and an old Gibbon fan, has given Decline and Fall a close trim, from 1,400,000 to 200,000 words, without scalping it of all meaning...
...Rhee crony last week: when Rhee gets a critical note from President Truman or the State Department, his attitude is-"I know you don't like me and I don't care." Last week, obviously not caring how his acts affect his allies or the Korean war, stubborn, 77-year-old President Rhee kept trying to get his highhanded way and smashing at whatever interfered...