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...spot in the wide world has taken such sustained and savage bombing. To defend it the British have paid dearly. But still they cling. If the world wonders, the British have a twofold answer...
Coming at a time of general dissatisfaction with the progress of the war, the Post is cleverly attempting to create a new band wagon on which our escapist groups can jump. These foreboding prophets say that "there is one rock or truth to which the common man may cling--economic freedom." But the common man has already given evidence that he is willing for the government to assume as much power as it needs to win the war. He has also shown that he expects the government after the war to prevent a return of the runaway competition which...
Those who cling to the notion that Mother Advocate leads an incurably rakish and irresponsible existence, should be pleasantly surprised by the September issue, which, among its other virtues, has four features bearing directly on the war. The fears of the editors that their magazine is "a luxury with which the College might well dispense" seem ungrounded in face of the excellence of this issue, and of the fact that now, of all times, colleges should fight to keep a grip on the values of the creative life...
...Times: "Jehovah's Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test, of the sincerity with which we cling to the Bill of Rights. If those of us who belong to the larger groups do not defend the rights of persons with whom we disagree, and whom we may actually detest, we are confessing that we hold our own rights on sufferance, or by our numbers...
More serious than some of the laws themselves, is the large number of States that cling to such restrictive statutes. Twenty-seven have anti-migratory laws which have effectively stopped the free movement of war workers regardless of the importance of their skills to armament industries. Every State has a law "limiting the rights of persons to engage in certain professions." This limits the supply of qualified persons, such as nurses, for war work. So far only New York has modified this statute. In 45 States trucks over a certain size and length are prohibited, which naturally means thousands...