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...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
...first thing to say about Alistair Cooke's treatment of Alger Hiss is that it is honest and carefully, almost painfully, impartial. These days that is saying a good deal. A previously published book on the Hiss trial ("Seeds of Treason" by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky) paints so black a picture of the defendant that probably even Thomas F. Murphy, the erstwhile prosecutor, would raise an occasional eyebrow over it. Mr. Cooke, then, is accurate. Whether he is more than that is another question...
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
Good reporter though he is, Cooke chooses to forget how few Americans were Communists even in the hungry '30s. Nor does he ever point up clearly the important difference between U.S. intellectuals who flirted with Marxism, and Communists who were committed to treason. His notion that the anti-Fascist climate of the '30s somehow establishes the need for present sympathy with traitors is charity gone wild and mars a fine journalistic performance...
...experience in New York City, Dr. Wertham was convinced that eight out of ten psychoanalyses should not have been started, and that six out of ten were more harmful than helpful. "I believe . . . that the patients are often right, and so are their relatives," he concluded. "If this be treason, send me to St. Elizabeth...