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...Tokyo press corps, in open rebellion against peacetime Army censorship, last week drew up a bill of complaint against General Douglas MacArthur's policy on news. For 18 months, said the report sent to the General, correspondents had tried to get his definition of military security. They got none. Meanwhile, the excuse of "security" had "been used repeatedly in an effort to control or influence the handling of news...
...every man has to have his share allotted to him from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder is at any rate a recognized official, against whom one can lodge a complaint. But who will be the warders in the general socialist prison? There will be no question of lodging complaints against them; they will be the most merciless tyrants ever seen, and the rest will be the slaves of these tyrants...
...What's the Use?" Now Schuman was trying to stop price increases by a partial return to dirigisme (state control). One housewife last week voiced a typical complaint: "I'd rather pay five francs more a pound for my meat than pay taxes for the wages of these government snoopers. They won't stop prices rising, anyway-they will simply drive the meat off the market...
Chico, the piano-playing Marx Brother, sued Warner Bros, for $200,000. His complaint: his name had been bandied about in the dialogue of Rhapsody in Blue without his permission. Furthermore, said he, he was quoted in the picture as endorsing certain pianistic techniques to which he would actually never subscribe...
...attorney general said that ultimately it would be up to the employer to decide whether he had Communists on his staff. If someone lodged a complaint here, President Conant would be obliged to review the case, decide as he saw fit, and await possible State action if the employee remained...