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Drexler said that when he had contacted Milliken two weeks ago about a license for the film, Milliken told him that there had been some trouble when another group tried to show "Birth of a Nation "before, but offered the Cinema Society tacit assurance that he would grant the license. Since no prints of the picture were available at that time, Drexler told Milliken that he would not get a copy until the day before the first showing (today) and, according to Drexler, Milliken agreed to view the picture whenever it came...
...Peking radio charged that, with the knowledge and tacit consent of the Red Cross, U.N. doctors had been performing Nazi-style medical experiments on Red prisoners of war both on Koje Island and on an LST set up as a "special floating laboratory." Therefore, the Peking radio insisted, the Red Cross is tarnished with U.N. crimes and unfit to investigate anything...
...avoiding major attacks, both sides were hanging on to the nonexistent ceasefire line by tacit consent. Washington authorized General Ridgway to continue the deadline for 15 days if the Communists requested it. They did not ask; but it looked as if they would have it without asking...
...opposition Nacionalistas, led by Jose Laurel, the able but embittered man who was President of the Philippines under Japanese rule. (Collaboration has largely ceased to be a political issue in the Philippines since the late Manuel Roxas, once No. 2 in the puppet regime, became postwar President with the tacit blessing of Douglas MacArthur...
...second tacit assumption is this matter of responsibility. The young of today are not haunted by the notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with a notion that if we strained and strained and strained we would pretty soon usher in a Utopia. These young have not that impatience. They have not that regret. It is not a matter of disillusion nor does it mean that they are indifferent to social betterment...