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...hate, The People. In it he described French society as a series of mutually ferocious classes. The debt-ridden peasant envies the factory worker. The factory worker envies the skilled worker. The skilled worker has "bourgeois aspirations." The bank-ridden bourgeois drives his workers, hates them as the uncertain element in production. The workers hate the foreman. The merchant hates his customers. The leisure class hates everybody, lives in constant fear of communism...
Freedom of speech--freedom to oppose ideas and policies which have the support of popular majorities or of government officials and to express one's disagreement in emphatic terms--provided one does not advocate disobedience to law--is the heritage of every American citizen. It is an essential element of that democratic faith which we are now bending all our energies to defend. Freedom of speech and of opinion within university communities is peculiarly necessary to the survival of our national liberties and of our civilization. It is the special function of universities to provide a place in which...
...that's all right so long as they are real peace groups, don't waste all their energy fighting each other, and act as a healthy balance wheel for such organizations as the Student Defense League, with its thinly-veiled interventionist stand. It is up to the Marx-Stange element to avoid being obstructionist and taking a wholly negative stand, opposing everything but their own domestic policy, and claiming that that is the cure-all for America's troubles. Likewise, the Gottlieb group will have to keep its head, recognize the difference between aid to England for our defense...
This methodical craftiness was nothing new : it was the old story of Prussian military precision. The new element which was injected into last week's raids was the fury of Adolf Hitler. There was no more "armed reconnaissance" last week - the raids were to destroy, kill, retaliate a thousandfold. Night raids were no longer designed for insomnia - they were designed for the sleep of death...
...Another element in the native Ethiopian. revolt against Italy was to have been the Mohammedans, who comprise one-fifth of all Ethiopians. Stronghold of the black. Moslems is Harar, near French and British. Somaliland. A son of the late Islamic Leader Lij Yasu, who took refuge from the Italians in Djibouti, was to have led this; uprising, but France's surrender damped! the project. Last fortnight an armistice, commission ended Djibouti's state of siege,, opened to Italy its terminal of the strategic: railroad to Addis Ababa. But even without above-ground leadership, the Islamic followers...