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...Crimson's editorialist of Oct. 9 and I disagree so completely that I cannot resist answering. He is right when he asserts that gross injustice prevailed in what he terms "the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties." But the injustice was not the fault of free enterprise at all. Cartels, tariffs, monopolies: these injustices of the twenties, and the thirties and forties, too, are all based upon the stifling of free enterprise. The beneficiaries of these devices, when challenged with their ill-gotten gains, habitually call upon free enterprise to sanctify them. Many reformers have never checked the validity...
...that moment, on Capitol Hill, Administration stalwarts sweated blood to get the President's inflation bill passed. In his demand for a law by Oct. 1, the President had put Congress on a spot. Most leaders felt that the price-control mess was as much his fault as Congress'. For a year he had done little more than they to control inflation and they felt he had passed the buck to them. And now particularly, when they had just whipped the farm bloc in a bitter battle, the President's words were like the slash...
...last week, however, many Britons were reflecting that Winston Churchill, after all, bore a responsibility for the capabilities of the men around him. It was widely suspected that, if they had been at fault, the fault had been as much, if not more, the Prime Minister...
Some Senators will yell "Dictatorship!" without realizing that it's their own fault. Dictatorship strikes a democracy only when it's legislature has decayed completely, and is not established by a strong man's seizing power when no one is looking. If wartime rule by the executive results from Congressional palsy, the blame will lie solely on Capitol Hill, not on the White House...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...