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Essentially both Churchill's speech and Lord Linlithgow's refusal come as a manifestation of the same political frame of mind. The war leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...
...union security"-maintenance of membership, voluntary checkoff, compulsory arbitration is the essential quid pro quo which the unions gave in agreeing not to strike...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, called for a "painful sincerity in our talk about freedom" as the keynote of America's moral approach to the war. "A war to restore the status quo can arouse no vast enthusiasm", he said. America is fighting for "another chance to give democracy a serious trial," Rocking said. And this freedom which we speak about "goes for America, for China, and also for India. This nation's greatest contribution to the world, according to him, is a "duck's back for shedding cynicism," and an ability to make idealism work...
According to Sweezy, maintenance of the status quo, which keeps a large majority of the population starving, is impossible. British rule has been a head-ache to India for 150 years, he said. They plundered and exploited it alone until the dissolution of the East India Company in 1813 opened it to free trade...
...scope of cooperation in the postwar world, Dr. Quo said, must be both political and economic, with all nations entitled to security and economic wellbeing. He spoke just before the looth anniversary, on Aug. 29, of the Treaty of Nanking signed after the "Opium War." Within the next two years Britain and the U.S. obtained extraterritorial rights, concessions and special treaties giving the white man what the Chinese called "a series of immunities which as a rule are accorded only to diplomatic representatives...