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...specific in its exclusively anti-Axis purposes: to scotch "systematic espionage, sabotage, and subversive propaganda .. . inspired by or under the direction of member States of the Tripartite Pact." Nevertheless, the Argentine Government, whose actions against the Nazis have been empty gestures but which has been carrying out a witch hunt against Communists and labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member "Communist" organization in the Chaco, where any labor-organizing...
...entirely new. "Fee fi fo fum, I smell Russian blood! For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself in your eyes and slaps you across the face." These words are not from a speech by Stalin. They are the lines the old witch (Baba Yaga) always speaks in the oldest of Russian folk tales...
...General worked 15-20 hours a day, had no time to change his clothes, blinked his bloodshot eyes, barked at businessmen: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough," inveighed against "witch doctors," "chiselers," "croakers." But he himself had predicted the day when "dead cats" would fly at him. Suddenly the glory dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic...
...become what it was intended to be under the Constitution, a method of advancing the progress of sci- ence and the useful arts." Many a student of U.S. patent law and practice figured that, at that point, Thur an Arnold was cooking with gas. His wartime witch hunts have actually obscured the real need for over-all revision of U.S. patent laws. Without such revision, the question plaguing the U.S. now will plague it even more at peace, when wartime-seizure powers no longer exist: How can a patent law encourage individual inventors without at the same time discouraging competition...
...said the President, the statute of limitations should be revised, so that trust-guilty firms could be punished after the war-the threat of prosecution in any post-war witch hunt would be left hanging over businessmen indefinitely. However businessmen might study this gift horse's teeth, the plain fact was that this was the first gift of any kind to business out of the White House, in many a long year...