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Living in Italy since 1958, when the U.S. found him mentally unfit to face treason charges (after twelve years in a federal hospital), Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound, 77, who spent World War II broadcasting for Mussolini, told the weekly Epoca: "I was always wrong. I lived all my life thinking I knew something; then a day came when I realized I didn't know a thing. My intentions were good, but I was stupid. Now I simply contemplate...
...claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver." Only a wantwit or a clodpate can fail to get some notion of Johnson's character in his definition of a dedication as "a servile address to a patron," or a pension as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized. Today no one calls a cow pasture a "vaccary," and infants are weaned, not "ablactated...
...Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there was one." But despite the official exoneration, doubts remained, which were in no way dispelled by Kim Philby's refusal to disavow his friendship with Burgess. "There are fair-weather friends and foul-weather friends," he said, "and I prefer...
...Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier Mamadou Dia, after Dia had turned on Senghor in an attempted coup. Last week, in a referendum run off while Dia languished behind the barbed wire of a military camp outside Dakar awaiting trial for treason, the 56-year-old Senghor legalized his position as Senegal's strongman...
...Berlin House of Representatives dropped 25%. There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent focuses on the government's clumsy "treason" crackdown on the newsmagazine Der Spiegel last November, and more important, on the stubborn refusal of Adenauer to clear the way for his own retirement and choice of a new C.D.U. leader...