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...South Carolina. To the people in Harlem, the General pictures himself as a modern Joshua, itching for the opportunity to blow down the walls of discrimination with a few well-spaced trumpet blasts. Those who read all the General's speeches, regardless of geographical location, have given up in utter confusion...
...regarding your approval of Adlai Stevenson for President of these United States, for "intellectual exertion and faith in the electorate's judgement." Does this mean that you also accept Col. Avery and what is left of what Kelly Nash rot? Do you also accept Wilson Wyatt for his utter failure in his management of the Lustron Corp. where millions of tax money was wasted? . . . Do you join the A.D.A. government by pink-minded men? Harry Truman gave his shoes to Adlai but refuses to take his own feet out. He claims all improvement and inventions for the past 20 years...
...want of a political adult, then, the Republican Crusade has been compromised, reduced to utter sterility." Here there seems tendency on your part to mistake the noise of the Republican campaign for the General's true position. And since you are careful to separate both Truman and Stevenson's less worthy utterances from the latter's capacity for independent leadership, the following points seem worth making...
...Jenner to vilify those things and those people he considers sacrosanct? The General has strained the theory of political unity to the point of dissolution when he makes such rapprochements in its name. For want of a political adult, then, the Republican Crusade has been compromised, reduced to utter sterility...
...felt, and failed to conceal, an utter contempt for the Old Bolsheviks' sentimental, old-grad memories and their pious reverence for the prophets Marx and Engels. "It is impossible to believe," wrote a British observer, "that there is no contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin...