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...French resistance to Vichy and to the Nazis over the conscription of French workers had brought on strikes, sabotage, demonstrations, civil fighting. Before this, British and French spokesmen had cautioned the French people, telling them to lie low, to hold their fire, to keep their heads down, to move away from Allied bombing targets, to sabotage safely, to resist passively . . . until the time came...
...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...
...Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play's title seems less like a symbol...
...Wafd Party, under Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. The best that could be said of the Wafdists was that, with the Axis armies at the gates, they were neutral, their hands upraised. The Egyptian Army, little more than a police force, could not be expected to resist. Egypt, old and lush, indolent and naked, waited-ready to be taken...
Independent national government is necessary if India is to resist successfully a Japanese invasion, since an oppressed nation cannot fight for the freedom of its oppressors, said Paul M. Sweezy '32, Faculty Instructor in Economics, in a Current Events talk in New Lecture Hall yesterday...