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...plan, Leo Szilard sees in world government the only complete security. Neither Albert Einstein's nor Walter Lippmann's chapter succeeds in more than indicating a satisfactory plan for such an organization. But Einstein shows clearly the functions the organization must undertake, while Lippmann sets forth original and cogent evidence that the world is ready to relinquish the concept of national sovereignty. The whole report asserts with great force of logic, if without trimmings of eloquence, that we are either ready to give up national sovereignty, or we are ready for destruction...
Senator Ball added a cogent argument: "What the Senator from Florida proposes is that we strip ourselves of the only real military power we still possess, the atomic bomb, and then confer with Russia about future security and peace. We might enter such a conference with clean hands, but . . . we would enter it committed in advance by our own impotence to a policy of appeasement...
...still impeding the news. In the U.S. the Office of Censorship was all gone but the archives; nobody was happier to see it go, insisted Director Byron Price, than he. Last week in his final report to Harry Truman, precise, silver-haired, ex-A.P.-man Price made two cogent points: 1) any wartime censorship must "hold to the single purpose" of keeping dangerous information from the enemy; 2) "no one who does not dislike censorship should ever be permitted to exercise censorship...
...history, we cannot for get for a single moment one basic fact -our country remains the single socialist state in the world. You can say this openly to the collective farmers. . . . Only the most direct danger which threatened us from Germany has disappeared." The Old School. Even this cogent demagoguery would not overcome all op, position. Kalinin was not wholly sorry; he hoped that the people would talk back to the organizers. (The tragedy of all successful revolutionaries is that they must hand over the power to men who were not tempered in the fires that tempered them. Part...
...beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong domestic sugar industry would be invaluable in wartime...