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That is what we in universities mean when we speak of academic freedom. It is our most precious possession, and it is of especial importance that it be maintained in America now that it has been blotted out in the universities of one country after another by the repressive forces of totalitarianism...
...inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...
...Hitler let the British down; nothing happened. There grew up the curious notion that they could win the war "comfortably." Sacrifice on a national scale was not asked, hence not made. For eight precious months Britain slept on, until there was a rude noise in Norway...
...them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense -for what good will it do to defend Britain to save our own hides and have our own youth insensitive to those precious rights which our ancestors for a thousand years have bought with their blood and treasure...
...forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable for 1,825 miles, that flows into the Arctic Ocean. Said the Herald Tribune: "Such a treaty would be the logical and inevitable culmination of an old and precious friendship between two peoples. As neighbors jointly threatened they would pledge their aid one to another...