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...Atomic Energy Commission and particularly his job with the Manhattan Project. The process of bringing into co-operation professional people of competing interests under the pressure of a mobilization schedule and directing their efforts within such a field in a complex task which in significant aspects is closely akin to the situation into which he was plunged at Bonn...
...fortnightly Episcopal Churchnews called upon Congress for censorship of all forms of mass communication to combat "moral and ethical subversion." Admitting that "to many Americans . . . any mention of censorship is considered closely akin to treason," the magazine held that "a much greater threat lies in the incitements to crime, violence and immorality that are circulated persistently, seven days and nights a week...
...Rembrandt is gone, and the house is stuffed with electronic brains and their human servitors, all available to customers on something akin to a help-yourself automat basis...
...teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually, the anti-UNESCO chorus grew to such volume that Stoddard was forced to withdraw the manual...
...Milwaukee, outspoken Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam let fly at "self-appointed patriots . . . pagan commentators . . . ignoramuses on investigating committees." Said he: "We don't intend to give up such words as 'peace, justice and brotherhood' " just because the Commies have appropriated them. "Little men whose mentality is . . . akin to the Nazi Gauleiter and the Russian commissar . . . think they are hearing something subversive when Christians speak...