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Main line of defense for ASCAP in the battle of the air-waves is the fact that in the mid-twenties its right was recognized under the copyright law to assess broadcasters for etherizing its music. The Society was for a while satisfied with a five per cent cut. But when networks incorporated and, finding themselves not liable to royalty fees, proceeded to juggle their books so as to lessen the amount paid by individual stations, ASCAP began to feel double-crossed. Hence the new contracts placing a seven and one-half per cent dent on income from all chain...
Hence it is that our whole political philosophy is on the defensive. It is confronted by systems which silence competent criticism by violence and make utopian promises to precisely that section of the population which is least qualified to assess such promises at their proper value. The leaders of these systems have joined in a concerted attack upon those European nations, great and small, which had realized an ideal of personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes...
...speak frankly. For at this time, we must all of us assess the future as best we can, and attempt neither to hide nor to exaggerate our fears. Many experienced observers of the recent European tragedy have sounded the alarm for the United States. Each one of us, all the citizens of the country, must decide to what extent we as a nation should heed the warnings. We must balance the probabilities. We must weigh the consequences of action or inaction. And though time is pressing, we must come to our decision by the process of free debate...
Such war raged across 23,000 square miles of Europe. The explosion of men's nerves and brains became as commonplace as death and wounds. Casualties were impossible to assess in the flowing confusion. Four million men were engaged in the business of slaughter, their killing power multiplied by tens of thousands of slaughtering engines. Human morale could not long endure such war. Whoever best endured-and the strain was nearly as great on attackers as on defenders-must be the winner...
foreign trade for 1940-3 first quarter enabled businessmen to assess the realities...