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...production it at least theoretically denied the public any chance to know and criticize if the President's arms program (60,000 planes and 45,000 tanks this year) falls down badly-any chance to know, that is, unless the Government chooses to admit it. Under such circumstances abject compliance by the press might prove far from the public interest...
...implication he berated Germany's stooges in the Paris press: "It is my duty to call deserters all who in the press as on the radio, abroad and in France, resort to abject tasks. ..." To this the stooges replied with charges that Vichy was abandoning "collaboration while Paris is upholding it," that Marshal Petain had been listening too respectfully to U.S. Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy...
Rudyard Kipling, as a child, under a tyrant aunt, suffered six years of a similar hell; but his wound distorted rather than strengthened his bow. As he grew older, he transposed the objects of his hatred and his fear; developed a weakling's abject worship of authority, and became the celebrant of class against mass, of system against the individual, of the animal, even of the machine, against the human. Wilson brilliantly points out the shifts and tightenings of these allegiances as they develop in Kipling's stories. He also points out that though Kipling is now neglected...
...conventional as a chess gambit were the first moves of the game. Vichy's loudspeakers rumbled out the most abject communiqué they had ever uttered. It began: "The Japanese Government Information Office published this morning the following declaration . . .", went on for seven paragraphs of pretty indirections. Japan and Vichy were in complete accord, had decided to "cooperate" in the "defense" of Indo-China...
Broadcasting from London, Winston Churchill promised that Britain would do her part by increased bombings of Ger many and "that unhappy, abject, subject province of Germany which used to be called Italy...