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More is involved than the warming over of an old feud between generals. Much of the present U.S. governmental and popular attitude toward China has been distilled out of Stilwell's venom...
...last advocate of that vanished conservative party, the Federalists. He believes that present-day attempts "to make Jefferson's reputation great by inflation may burst the bubble," and speaks of the explosive honesty of John Adams, the "underhanded tact and hypocrisy" of Jefferson, the "subtle and persistent venom" of John Quincy Adams. Such blunt historical editorializing has scarcely been seen in the U.S. since the days he writes about. But his partisanship for the Federalists is no greater than that of Morison and Brooks and Arthur Schlesinger for Thomas Jefferson and the Democrats...
Worse than Death. The venom of communal bitterness had been thickened by the record flare-up of an old frontier practice-the abduction of tens of thousands of women. From one train arriving at Amritsar last week, 150 young girls had been taken. In Bikaner State, an official estimated that Sikhs fleeing there from Pakistan had lost 40 of their women. So grave had woman-stealing become that Pakistan's Prime Minister Lia-quat Ali Khan and India's Jawaharlal Nehru held special discussions about it last week; both Governments agreed to hunt out and return abducted women...
...allowed to see him at the hospital. But he had previously been seized with an odd impulse to get something off his chest to a Negro editor named Leon Lewis. In June, he had summoned Lewis to his side. The man who had preached race hate with a venom seldom exceeded in U.S. history delivered a reluctant and rambling apology to his dark-skinned visitor...
...written between 1939 and 1947, are slick magazine products with a happy ending, but the majority appeared first in the New Yorker and wear a kind of civilized brutality. Readers will miss the garlicky locale of his earlier books, but they will feel the sting of the old Weidman venom...