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...something. It was a relief from the meaningless mouthings to which prominent men have treated the American public lately. The modern demagogue would have ranted endlessly about freedom of the press being a "glorious ideal cemented in the hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...
Mankind is on the threshold of change, evidenced by growing unrest. To suppress the unrest, the rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means...
Proponents of this theory have an undoubted advantage in the fact that it has never failed--because it has never been tried. Nor is it likely that it ever will be tried, for it runs counter to human nature. One must agree, then with Mr. Bliven, it appears, in his unhappy conclusion. If our present economic and political system is seriously threatened by a rival, such things as freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of press, will inevitably disappear. --Yale News...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Senators Charles Linza McNary of Oregon; Carl Trumbull Hayden of Arizona, ex-1900; President Almon Edward Roth of Rotary International; Writer Robert Luther Duffus of the New York Times; Vice President Paul Downing of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic; District Attorney Charles Marron Fickert who helped send Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail...
Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic thinks TIME'S phrase "a co-founder of The New Republic" was entirely accurate. It is true that Herbert Croly (with whom TIME'S story was not concerned) and the Straights conceived the idea of The New Republic and the former asked Walter Lippmann to become an editor. But long before the magazine's first number appeared Mr. Lippmann was a member of the group, was active in shaping the paper's policies.-ED. Judge Payne's Farm Sirs...