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...rife with subjectivity. "Only 15 per cent of those taking the test knew that the Times thought that America's policy toward China was "Open Door" although Fine (the man who ran the show for the Times) says that "Friendliness" would have been acceptable. Anyone who went beyond that catchword was ridiculed," the student editors commented...
...Times marking system also falls down on several of the broader questions. Only 15 per cent of those taking the test knew that the Times thought that America's policy toward China was "Open Door," although Fine says that "friendliness" would have been acceptable. Anyone who went beyond the catchword was ridiculed...
...limited government for a free society. Good government is always (relatively speaking) little government, or, as Jefferson thought, the less government, the better. In the present period the political freedom implied in limited government is menaced by the need for economic security implied in planning. In its present catchword sense "planning," says Drucker, "is not a preparation for future events and contingencies. It is the abolition of all limitations on governmental power...
...democracy, a hysterical fear of Communism, a fanatical dread of "the Jewish octopus," a passionate antipathy toward Roosevelt or the British, or any combination of these elements. A large and responsive group of readers can easily be found. Unfortunately, the "unity" of the American people, a fourth of-July catchword which means exactly nothing can be sorely disarranged by the sort of subversive literature which the F. B. I. still allows to circulate. We can blindfold our eyes and follow the example of France, which was eaten away from the inside by termites unbeknownst to everyone until the German juggernaut...
Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag-the South Pole...