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Most men come in contact with those extra-curricular activities which depend upon the entire student body for support, so it is natural that the most interest should be shown in the future plans of these organizations...
...Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than all the others combined. All depend for most of their foreign and domestic news on the handouts of the Chinese Central News Agency, subsidized by the Kuomintang...
...Intelligence was overreporting German casualties in World War I, Winston Churchill stormed: "The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy. Thus the outlook of the leader on whose decision fateful events depend is usually far more sanguine than the brutal facts admit...
...directing attention to incidental rather than to central points. Mankind suffers room many moral and economic ills, but a peace treaty can establish economic justice or moral perfection, or wait for them. Peace can create favorable conditions for social progress and spiritual peace; in itself it does not depend upon them. It depends upon the enforcement of law by the united force of law-abiding nations...
...remembered Saturday night and the farewell party to the guy across the hall. He thought of the farewell party the week before that, and the ones before that. He thought of the pat on the back and the "good luck, boy, I hope you don't have to depend on it though." And he thought of the sailors in the Common and headlines in the newspapers and the war movies...