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France, long one of the most enlightened nations in the world, is backward to the point of primitivism when it comes to putting a roof over people's heads. A fort night ago Socialist Deputy Albert Gazier, member of the Committee for Economic Affairs, submitted a shocking report to the French National Assembly: "The average age of buildings in Paris is 83 years. One-quarter of all apartments have no running water. The number of Parisians who are forced to live in single hotel rooms is estimated...
...Dedijer, Djilas is frankly, in opposition to Marshal Tito himself. "Tito did good for the country during the war and for a short time after the war," Partisan Hero Djilas told TIME. "But Tito is an old, hard-line Marxist, and Marxism as he practices it is only for backward countries in Asia and on the fringe of Russia. Yugoslavia has evolved to a position where it needs greater political freedom." Djilas calmly cited his own situation: "Even as recently as 1949, Tito would have had to order me jailed or executed. But in 1954, with it publicly known that...
...worst evils of a democratic state is public opinion. [It] must be subject to the vigilance of authority . . . Those who still clamor for so-called freedom of the press demonstrate that they are very backward people." Thus, Franco's Minister of Information Gabriel Arias Salgado explained the "philosophy" behind the proposed new press law that he was trying to have passed last week...
...prevent the "backward people" of Spain from protesting against his law, Arias Salgado allowed not a word of it to appear in the press. But Cabinet members protested that the publishers should be heard from before the law was passed. Dictator Franco agreed, put off action until the publishers have a chance to file their objections. Actually, Arias Salgado's proposed law would only put on the statute books powers that the government already exercises under a "provisional law" that went into effect 16 years...
Most Hated & Adored. When Gladstone's enemies asked, as they frequently did, why God was always a Liberal, never a Tory, Gladstone patiently explained that God was choosy about whom He backed, and often refused to reveal Himself to dumb or backward persons. But perhaps God voted Liberal as often as He did because He realized that no politician, of any age, in any country, had struggled so vigorously as Gladstone to practice what He preached...