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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Epidemics & Patience | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Hopeless? | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Senate Subcommittee on Rules & Administration is sifting a charge by Connecticut's Bill Benton that Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy is unfit to be a Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE INQUIRING CONGRESSMEN | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Squeeze. In Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Anna Katzman got two notices from the city: 1) the tax assessment on her tenement house was raised 20%, 2) the building was declared unfit for occupancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Tidings, weekly Catholic newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese, charged Eleanor Roosevelt with being an agnostic who "apparently does not acknowledge God" and is therefore unfit to have headed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The argument started on the CBS program This I Believe, when Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I don't know whether I believe in a future life ... I came to feel that it didn't really matter very much, because whatever the future held you'd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Things to Think About | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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