Word: allowed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
This is what Commander Kelly said yesterday: "As well as my energies and abilities permitted, I have refused to allow the Legion to become a part in any attempt to lead this country to a second baptism of blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...
...Canadian censors don't get this letter, I hope that you will publish it and allow your readers a view of Canadian youth's outlook other than that of the official propaganda. Although we are painted as panting to go overseas and get killed for dear old England, the remarks I have noted among younger Canadians since the announcement that the U. S. was coming here to set up defense bases have been typically: "Well, it won't be long now, before we're all under Uncle Sam-and a good thing...
Last week, from Bulgaria, Correspondent Gedye had some interesting things to say about the system that had cost him his latest post. When the censorship went into effect on Jan. 1 the Russian Press Bureau clamped down with a bang, suppressing even such messages as "Censor will not allow this story to be sent." All unfavorable facts about Russia were promptly deleted from press wires, together with any comments or interpretation, any qualifying clauses crediting hypotheses to "the Soviet point of view." Even excerpts from the local press were erased if they hinted that all was not milk & honey...
...only false note of the entire conference after its chairman, President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary, key-noted its aims: "Our failure to harmonize science, philosophy and religion in their true relation to the democratic way of life has been a catastrophe. We must not allow Western civilization, already destroyed in much of Europe, to suffer any further disintegration. We believe that the military struggle in Europe is but one phase of a far greater conflict-the conflict between ideas which make for the development of human civilization and ideas which make for its destruction...