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...meant that U.S. tactics were shifting with events. The abortive efforts to mediate between irreconcilable forces had not only failed. They had been twisted into a convenient target for anti-U.S. propaganda, inspired to a large extent by the Left (see below). Having thus abandoned one impassable road to peace in China, the U.S. now looked to both Kuomintang and Communists to find their...
...wrote a front-page epitaph for the Record: "Guild policy has acted to restrict the rights of management to a degree where it has become too great a burden to operate a completely independent press. . . . Philadelphia's liberal newspaper has been chosen by this one union as a target for its unusual theories...
Since his class in the Student Training Corps was still in College when World War I ended, Professor Allport is in a position to compare those years with our times. He sees one big difference: after the first war the feeling of unrest and scapegoating was directed at many targets--such "symbolic villains" as the IWW, byphenated Americans, and the Bolsheviks. Because of this there was no great harm, since enmities were diffuse and scattered. Today, though, he sees the unrest and scapegoating focused on one target--Communism, and finds it a warlike and ominous attitude...
...interim committee with a panel of four scientists was set up to keep the President advised. On June 1 the committee resolved that 1) "the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible, 2) used on a dual target-that is, a military installation or war plant surrounded by or adjacent to houses and other buildings most susceptible to damage, 3) used without prior warning...
...growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy with uplift and the dusting off of our own morals. Sights high, eyes on the target, we are out to blast the canard that Montreal was ever a sinful city. . . . 'Toronto the Good' forsooth. Move over, chum...