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...Being Foolish." U.N. military and diplomatic observers, many of whom had sympathized with the old man's stand, were angered by his conduct last week. U.S. officials were also angered when Rhee insinuated that President Eisenhower's promise of a post-armistice mutual-security pact was worthless. Even Rhee's own generals were reportedly telling him that it would be impossible for Korea to go it alone. And there were increasing signs that the ROK army would remain loyal to the U.N. Command in a showdown. Said one ROK army officer last week: "Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Mob Scene | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...versus Special Interests" (often coupled with demands for high tariffs or more subsidy for a hitherto neglected special interest) are forever confusing the nation's deepest traditions and vitiating attempts at calm study. All the vocational training possible, all the calling to mind of obscure statistics, are by themselves worthless, for partisans of fighting faiths will take what serves their cause and find reason for denying the rest. It is the attitude taken at the beginning which counts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Spirit of Education | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

Having robbed the people of their freedom, Czechoslovakia's Communists last week got on with the job of robbing them of their money. The operation was neatly done-in three stages. First, Radio Prague boomed: "All state loans after 1945 and securities issued after 1945 are declared worthless." This meant that workers forced to put their savings into the Czech version of "E" bonds now hold worthless paper, a total of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Robbery by Decree | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Prokofiev's aristocrats were snobbish, idle, worthless people; his masses were the salt of the earth. Officially, the Communists did not attend, but the Communist press turned handsprings in praise of Prokofiev's work and its ideological message. Some critics, obviously unfamiliar with Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel, had trouble following the plot, and small wonder: about the only original characters who came through were Pierre, the high-born hero who learned to love the Russian people through suffering with them, and Natasha, the simple girl who returned to her first love when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tolstoy, Digested | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

After Due Consideration. In Akron, after denying that he had written worthless checks for $18, Frank Korecky, 30, asked for 20 minutes to "compose" himself, then told police that he had passed $5,000 worth of bad checks, pulled seven burglaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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