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...that 1) he caused the death of a U.S. captain "who gave me some lip" by complaining to the Japanese, who executed him; 2) he tried to get a U.S. colonel to turn U.S. codes over to the Japanese; 3) he beat up a U.S. sergeant in a vain effort to get information about a hoard of $7,500,000 in silver which the U.S. Army had dumped into the sea rather than let it fall into Japanese hands...
President Jordan waited in vain last night for two policeman who accused a Radcliffe girl of stealing a five helmet. The officers appeared Monday night at Whitman clutching a picture of the Radcliffe Song Contest from the October 28 Boston "Globa...
...society marched into the ranks of the peace strikers. Their banner urged bigger and better imperialist wars, Jingoism, and increased armament. The three leaders of the society were dressed as Hitler, Karl Marx, and a boyscout. Quickly the leaders strike tried to beat the drum for peace, but in vain. The Mullius men had turned the strike into a farce. Heckled incessantly, the YCL leaders were showered with eggs, onions, and pennies by the crowd...
What has always been the most curious to us, however, is the undoubted fact that the number of Communists in government has never been more than a handful, a fraction of the numbers which have been assaulting France and Italy for years in vain. Yet no one, not even the most ardent anti-McCarthyite, has asked the question: how much actual damage has been done by these subversives? It is natural to be troubled by the idea of foreign agents in one's government, but if the consequences have not been very serious one has no cause for hysteria...
...hoped, said Byrd, that Stevenson "would give assurance that, if elected, he would change the course of Trumanism, a continuation of which . . . means ultimate disaster ... I have looked in vain for any signs of such independent action." Point by point, Byrd ripped into Trumanism, which he called the campaign's main issue-"usurpation of power by the Executive . . . trends to socialism ... inefficiency . . . profligate spending . . . fiscal irresponsibility . . . high and oppressive taxes . . ." He concluded: "I do not feel it incumbent upon me to urge the people to vote for any candidate." The people of Virginia, he was sure, would "act wisely...