Word: superpatriots
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...looks as though at last we have the war we have been itching for in Southeast Asia. It sure is wonderful having spunky little General Khanh as the latest American superpatriot. The death of innocent people who want only the establishment of a neutral Viet Nam doesn't upset him. Oh well, it takes our minds off race riots and all that dirty local stuff...
Adlai Stevenson paused patiently time and again while scattered hecklers hoo ed and booed during his United Nations Day speech in Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater last week. When one crude superpatriot interrupted to shout a question about Stevenson's beliefs, Adlai, unruffled, replied: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance...
...Love, but Justice. The young Washington that Freeman has exhumed will give many a superpatriot the twitches. Freeman knows that his portrait of a proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that...
...first place, they had got Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, a violent superpatriot (TIME, Dec. 2), appointed chief of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Prince Konoye's central directing agency concerned with streamlining the Government. Fortnight ago Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, former premier, a leader of the secret National Foundation Society, who has long been called Japan's foremost Fascist, was named Home Minister, in charge of police, secret service, censorship...
...Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts ... a 'superpatriot' who was a Russian for a long time, then posed as a German, finally coming out a Lithuanian." Of himself Pilsudski said, modestly: "I walked the floor the entire night after hearing of the Lithuanian mobilization, dreading the horrors of war and fearing on the other hand...