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Answering a plea from the HSU, Michael Widman, chairman of the Ford workers' organizing committee of the United Automobile Workers, has promised to send a representative from his committee who will defend the workers now striking at River Rouge...
...drive to unite clubs, newspapers, fraternities, and student committees to defend democratic education, the National Council was voted a permanent organization to coordinate efforts and dispense information, and April 23 was named as the day for student peace and democracy demonstrations...
...Italians retired from their height and tried to defend the town until the British seized their artillery emplacements. This was too much for the brave Italians. They fled in the night, but the British, according to their first count, captured...
...question was how many Italians were prepared to defend Harar, and how hard. It was likely that most of the Italians who had been in British Somaliland had fallen back into this area. The Italians would probably put up a stanch fight here because here-and at Cheren in Eritrea-were the last chances for strong stand: before Addis Ababa. If the British could crack the old town of Harar, they could cut the rail line, just north of Harar, from Addis Ababa...
...Democracy and Intellectual Freedom invoked the Constitution, declared that teachers, as citizens, had a legal right to be members of the Communist Party. But there were other liberals who refrained from protest, reflecting that Lincoln's dilemma was more real today than ever. They found it hard to defend a persecuted minority whose offense was not mere unpopularity, but enmity to the State...