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Last week occurred the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that was going to insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler. That day he was on a Bavarian mountain top directing a campaign to reclaim for the German Fatherland the Free City of Danzig, neutralized and placed in customs union with renascent Poland by the treaty-makers. As the Führers well-oiled propaganda machine went into high gear...
...York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was to prime Government examiners to use "good" words, avoid "bad" ones-the better to propagandize the New Deal. Excerpts...
...Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing 22 objections to the Wagner Plan. Hottest hits: "The bill insidiously promotes the development of a complete system of tax-supported Government medical care," and "the bill provides for supreme Federal control...
...arrived from perilous Europe to stay awhile with Grandmother Elizabeth Morrow at Englewood, N. J. But Father Lindbergh could not tarry long. He had 25 other visits to make before he could turn out a report for his admiring superior, Major General Henry H. Arnold. Expert Lindbergh in that document will have a chance to compare what he finds in the U. S. with what he found in Germany, Russia, England. His report may be a loudspeaker for Henry Arnold's little heeded pleas to Congress for more research money. It may also hot-spot War Department procurement policies...
...This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...