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...Mohammed, who has nominal authority over the natives of French Morocco, Spanish Morocco, now in the hands of Spanish Rightists, and Tangier, came the pledge: "No matter what happens, if the worst comes to pass I can assure you that the Sultan of Morocco and all his subjects will align themselves at the side of France...
...chances for any sort of progressive national party in 1940 were no greater after the Socialists had acted upon their prime political problem of the moment: whether, when, and how to align with the State and local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist...
...lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed the Labor Party agitation in his keynote address by replying to advice sent last summer from the Comintern at Moscow urging U. S. workers to align politically. "[The A. F. of L.] will not take that action because some order comes from some gathering in a foreign country. . . . No government in a foreign land . . . can tell the American Federation of Labor what...
Above all, the government must avoid taking any positive action which would appear to align it on the side of either antagonist. Such legislation as the Association new proposes cannot fail to prejudice labor against the government. The Trade Disputes Bill, indeed, was characterized by the Laborites in England, as a deliberate attempt made by the capitalists to utilize the forces of a democratic government in the class war. And when either party looks on the national administration as blassed in favor of the other side, all hope of the efficacy of the government as an impartial mediator will...
...wish to align myself with theater-bombing syndicates, William Randolph Hearst, or the NSL, but merely believe that such anomalies in Harvard life as discontinuance of a matutinal seven o'clock alarm, discontinuance of a reading knowledge of hieroglyphics as an entrance requirement, and an occasional good-natured recount all work for the best in lifting the institution (Harvard) from the withered hand of tradition...