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...from those . . . [of] war to [those of] peace. It is already seen that physical reconversion will be no vast or long-drawn problem. But reconversion is more than a physical process. It requires new attitudes, and above all acceptance of the fact that production, prices, and . . . wages must now conform to what a multitude of consumers want and can pay, instead of the orders of one customer [the Federal Government] whose needs are insatiable and interest in prices secondary...
...News stories shall not be colored to conform with any propaganda line...
...Promises. Promptly the opposition redoubled its activities. Dimitroff's onetime Agrarian Party colleague, General Nicola Petkoff, began to organize his own party, probably in cooperation with the opposition wings of three other parties (Radical, Democratic, Social Democratic). Opposition leaders demanded that the present election law be amended to conform with the Constitution (i.e., minimum voting age be raised from 19 to 21, minimum age for candidates from 23 to 30), insisted that the key Ministry of the Interior be transferred to a "neutral" incumbent...
...Japanese prepared to lay down their arms in China, Yenan crackled with defiance. Communist Commander in Chief Chu Teh roughly rejected the nominal authority of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To Chungking he wired: your order not to take independent action in accepting Japanese surrender (TIME, Aug. 20) "does not conform to the national interest. . . . You have issued the wrong order, very wrong, indeed, and we have to reject it resolutely...
...life in the community fails to illustrate the teaching of the schools, the individual is more apt to conform to the community mores than he is to hold fast to the teaching of his school or college," it is asserted. "And yet the salvation of the community depends upon those individuals whose education gives them the moral and intellectual strength to stand out when necessary against the majority...