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1st March, 1952
Just as hundreds of thousands of innocent people were condemned as witches in the Middle Ages, so multitudes of Communists and Russian patriots were purged for mythical counter-revolutionary activities. Indeed, it was precisely because there was nothing to uncover that the arrests reached such fantastic proportions (by a most ingenious method, Mr Weissberg calculates that eight million innocent people probably passed through the prisons between 1936 and 1939). Statesman
22nd March, 1952
The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane. Statesman
April 15th, 52
Roumanian Communist Government has ordered mass deportation of ‘unproductive people’ from Bucharest. They number 200,000 or one-fifth of the city. Express
28th June, 52
It is impossible to establish the numbers of Americans who have had their passports restricted or denied, but known cases reveal that a wide range of individuals of different backgrounds, beliefs and political persuasions have been affected. The list includes … Statesman
5th July, 52
Most important of all, the effect of the American witch-hunt is to produce a general level of conformity, a new orthodoxy from which a man dissents at his economic peril. Statesman
2nd Sept., 52
The Home Secretary said that although grave damage must be caused by an accurately delivered atom bomb, it is sometimes wildly exaggerated. Express
I am well aware that you cannot carry out a revolution with rosewater; my query was whether, in order to defeat the danger of war from Formosa, it was necessary to execute a million and a half, or whether to disarm them might not have been adequate. Statesman
Dec. 13th, 1952
JAPANESE DEMAND ARMS. Express
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