Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given by the fact that they can be expelled for writing anything that the Communist governments do not like. Under the severe laws governing military and economic espionage, that could be as simple a thing as reporting the amount of money in circulation-or a host of other common facts & figures openly published by the Western democratic press. If a correspondent manages to get the Press Ministry's permission to leave the capital of his country, an official guide is usually assigned to see to it that he sees only favorable things. As a result, much of what happens...
...real feelings in the matter. To express them to the nation, Acheson had already called on Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Speaking before the Jewish War Veterans in Manhattan, Infantryman Bradley made the point with soldierly precision: "Although the North Atlantic pact is an agreement on policy for our common defense, it is evident that policy without power is like law without enforcement ... A military assistance program is obviously an essential sequel to the pact...
...North Atlantic pact," said Bradley, "would enable free nations of the Old World and the New to funnel the great strength of our New World to the ramparts of the Old, and thus challenge an enemy where he would transgress . . . Not until we share our strength on a common defensive front can we hope [for] a real deterrent...
...Debate Council won its sixth straight contest against Hamilton College yesterday afternoon as William C. Bocker '51 and Richard W. Hulbert '51 argued the negative side of the old stand by, federal aid to education, in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...evening, however, the streak came to an end. In a debate with Amherst College in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, the Crimson debaters lost the decision. Godfrey G. Howard '50 and George I. Mulhern '51 supported the affirmative argument on the topic: "Resolved. That Membership in the Communist party be declared Illegal...