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...operated. Finally the squadron commanding officer thought up a remedy, but the remedy cost money. Last week the following explanation, pinned to the squadron's expense account, had found its way to the Admiralty in London: "The attached correspondence concerning the purchase of a juju from a native witch doctor is submitted for information...
...Changing Society, claims that they have been used by 5,000,000 youngsters. He had to stop writing the 21st to devote himself to defending the first 20. But Dr. Rugg believes that the present wave of U. S. jitters will pass, as did four other waves of "witch-hunting" in what he calls "the long armistice" between World...
...Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...
According to Eliot, there are two main dangers facing the American people at present. The first is the danger of Fifth Column penetration through sabotage groups; the second is the danger that, once Americans recognize the power of the Fifth Column, they will doubtless go on a gigantic "witch-hunt" which will probably hurt many innocent people...
...many a complacent U. S. citizen, Nelson Rockefeller's investigation of Nazis in Latin America has seemed little short of a witch hunt. One reason is that the Inter-American Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations named no names, preferred to work quietly. He merely said there was evidence that many a U. S. company, often unknowingly, had an "anti-American" (i.e., Nazi) for agent below the Rio Grande, suggested replacement by men friendly to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 20). But last week to TIME'S Texas Bureau Chief Holland McCombs came reports from Mexico which gave...