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...Cite Party Pledges...
General de Gaulle had gone to the Cameroons, which had declared for him along with most of French Equatorial Africa, straight from his failure at Dakar. Despite that fiasco, he still had hope. Said he: "I cite Hitler's words from Mein Kampf that a people may be beaten, but when a people and their leaders accept defeat, then they are forever lost. On the other hand, if a handful of men do not accept defeat, everything is to be hoped for. The Cameroons will have a place in the history of this war and the history...
...supported by the local press is enough, now that academic freedom, prestige, even tax-exemption are perhaps at stake. . . . No matter what happens in Europe or here, the poise and loyalty of American scholarship must remain above suspicion. Let us not learn too late that the educated fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through the gates, but entered as a holy sanctimonious offering to the gods. George Kingsley Zipf '23, University...
...Secretary of the Treasury, his pet hate. In September 1938, just before meeting, the directors of Bank of America got a telegram from the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, one of whose jobs is to watch the capital-deposit ratios of national banks. The telegram threatened to cite the directors to the Federal Reserve Board if they declared the bank's regular dividend. A. P. and his directors defiantly declared it, have continued to ever since. Blaming Walker for telling secrets to SEC, blaming Morgenthau for the Comptroller's "hostile attitude toward our institution...
...Approved Congressman Martin Dies's stringent procedure against Communists who have refused to answer questions, voted to cite three reticent Reds for contempt of the House...