Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the fall of Mukden the Chinese Communists have completed their conquest of Manchuria. North China as far south as the Yangtze is in danger of falling under their control. On the economic side, Chiang Kai-shek's government has removed price controls and with them has vanished all hope for its economic reforms. The resulting inflation is destroying the newly-issued money for which the middle class was forced to sacrifice its holdings of gold and foreign currency. With the Republican defeat in the U.S. election discouraging Knomintang expectations for increased military aid, the Nationalist Cabinet has resigned...
Fletcher, who was the last speaker, said that the elimination of fear as a restraint in sexual promiscuity mainly through modern methods of contraception and venereal disease control makes necessary the substitution of personal devotion and intuitive morality as more positive motives against a spread of illegal sex relations...
Massachusetts voters yesterday turned down the three State labor-curbing referenda by substantial margins. The birth-control referendum, in a tight vote, appeared to have lost early this morning...
...Conant is a supporter of the Draft recently enacted. It is a small step from supporting a measure which places a relatively few (for the time being) young men in the clutches of war bent military forces to the advocacy of a program that would give the military control ever 10 very formative years in the lives of every one of our young...
...maintain with Henry Wallace that the Draft is only one more step in the drive toward war in the part of the bankers and general who control our government's policy. We further assert that Mr. Conant's universal military training program lends them considerable encouragement from noted civilian sources to continue their war program. Harvard Committee for Wallace