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...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
...more violent theories of socialism were already supplanting these gentle persuaders whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke. "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire." Finding some peasants milling around a German castle one day, he hopped out of his carriage, filled them so quickly with creative desire that when he took his seat again, the castle...
...morning in 1938 Publisher Elzey Roberts of the St. Louis Star-Times glanced over the comics running in that day's editions, noted that of eleven strips, ten dealt with fist fights, murder, domestic quarrels, fear, theft, despair, deception, torture, arson, death. Publisher Roberts sat down and wrote an indignant editorial. Then he began to look for a comic strip to appeal to children...
These farmers hate what the Japanese have done to their historic city. Ten years ago there were some 2,000 Japanese in Peking; now there are 60,000. They run everything. Behind every Chinese shopkeeper stands a breath-sipping Japanese "adviser." By squeeze and by theft the Japanese have drained the area of every commodity, so that prices have tripled. Greatest machine of exploitation has been the North China Development Company (capitalization: $105,000,000), which got control of everything from telegraph offices to coal mines. They ground Chinese cotton farmers so hard that many stopped growing cotton: production fell...
...Fifth-column activities have little in common with old-fashioned espionage or sabotage such as the Germans used in World War I to destroy $150,000,000 of U. S. property. Adolf Hitler has perfected "the science of treason'' - which now includes not only the theft or purchase of military and naval secrets, the damaging or destruction of defense equipment, but the demoralizing of public opinion, the conscious exploitation of class and racial differences, the systematic irritation of disputes, the vigorous organization of hatred and suspicion...