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Bonner had promised to enforce the compulsory-education law and compel the unruly Sons to send their children to school. As opening day approached, indications grew that the Sons were getting set to defy Bonner and the "manmade" school law. Railway dynamitings and house-burnings, two favorite methods of Freedomite protest, broke out around their settlements in the mountainous Kootenay district. Several hundred Freedomites left their homes and set up a tent village at Perry Siding. None of their children showed up for classes when school opened. Instead, the parents stripped for their demonstration...
...highways did not have to be built to carry the heavy truck, but only to ... carry the automobile, we could build tens of thousands more miles of improved highways than we are building today with the same amount of money. The truckers, however, strenuously oppose any efforts that will compel them to pay their fair share of modern road costs . . . There are very strong and well-entrenched pressure groups which are going to fight...
...their hand at forming a new government-usually beginning with an unlikely candidate and (always excepting the Communists) moving on up the roster to the possible. There is a Gallic gimmick in this: by making the process seem over-leisurely, the President relies on rising public impatience to compel the Assembly finally to vote some government into power. Last week, casually reviewing candidates to end France's 19th political crisis in 7½years, the lords of the Assembly were momentarily shocked out of their lethargy by a man who was only the third invited to form a cabinet...
...Soviet leaders . . . have hoped to force upon America and the free world an unbearable security burden leading to economic disaster," said the President. "It is fact that there is no such thing as maximum military security short of total mobilization of all our national resources. Such security would compel us to imitate the methods of the dictator . . . There is, I believe, only one honest, workable formula . . . a defense strong enough both to discourage aggression and beyond this to protect the nation-in the event of any aggression-as it moves swiftly to full mobilization...
...making up for an inept job of explaining its case to the world, the U.S. State Department issued a statement showing just what the U.S. considers the issue of principle to be. "Members of the free world," said State, "have affirmed that there can be no force used to compel the unwilling prisoners to return to the Communists . . ." Sir Winston Churchill agrees with this principle, but he insists that the Chinese have also recognized it by agreeing to turn over unwilling prisoners to neutral custody. If, while under neutral custody, the Communists cannot "eliminate their apprehensions" about returning to their...