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...that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...
...assessed the chances of peace: "Perhaps military catastrophes might be avoided if it were possible for raw materials and markets to be periodically redistributed among the various countries in accordance with their economic importance, by agreement and peaceable settlement. But that is impossible to do under present capitalist conditions of the development of world economy...
...Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder...
Finland's present program is far from communization or even socialization. One extreme left-winger told me, crossly: "Even Finnish Socialists prefer to make small reforms in the existing capitalist system rather than change it for a new system." Said an industrialist: "Our Socialists are really very sound fellows. They are in the difficult position of having to talk a lot of socialization to attract the masses, without doing any real socializing...
...nearest counterpart in the West of Chen's interpretation of San Min Chu I? He answers: "The evolutionary program, of the British Labor Party." This is only half true. Chen is certainly against capitalist free enterprise, which he would regard as too individualistic, competitive and disorderly. But his Socialism contains little of Herbert Morrison's regard for personal liberty or Morrison's preoccupation with economics...