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...detracts from the evidentiary force of the silence . . . What the force may be depends, as is true of all evidence, on the circumstances; but in respect of public employees, the force may properly be regarded as conclusive because of an employee's duty of loyalty to his employer as such-a duty quite apart from the citizen's duty of loyalty to his country...
...primitive, rice-growing villages of the Red River delta, I found a slow building-up of effective antiCommunism. Bai Trang (pop. 2,000) is one such-a village with no illusions...
Five years ago, Harold Nicolson wrote a good book with a bad title (Some People). Public Faces is another such-a more ingenious and less amusing satire on the dignified, dangerous asininities of diplomacy and also a book that deserves a better name. Author Nicolson retails his solemn state secrets as one having had authority. Onetime diplomatist for Britain, he resigned before yielding to the temptation to be indiscreet...
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