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...Minister of Finance to His Highness the Kabaka (King) of Buganda says: "There will be plenty of room for Europeans even after self-government. But we are determined to get rid of the Asians." Adds Nyasaland's demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda: "If they interfere in politics, they will be told to clear out. We will boycott their stores, and they know what that means-bankruptcy...
There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
They issued warning bulletins-"All flounder should be destroyed"-through the press, radio and TV. The alarms ran through dinnertime: some families got up from the table and dumped their filleted flounder into the garbage can. Housewives who were saving it in the refrigerator got rid of it in a hurry. Hospital switchboards lit up and were jammed for hours. Emergency rooms filled fast. About 300 people who said they had eaten flounder got treatment: some were hypochondriacs, most were mild cases, a few were severely poisoned. As far as officials knew, there were no more deaths...
What gave committee members the roughest jolt was Slichter's suggestion that the U.S. gradually abolish all tariffs and import quotas over the next ten years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...
What is more ominous is the apparent ease with which the government rid itself of all qualms about the International Geophysical Year and decided to conceal data transmitted by the satellite Explorer IV. Although the IGY agreement requires that all information should be revealed by September 1959, the United States has repeatedly taken Russia to task for not releasing data as soon as it was processed...