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...Crux. Absorbed in such social projects, the Government had a narrow escape in the press-law controversy. Though the new bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...
...Aren't we overlooking completely the crux of the problem of maintaining peace in Europe by allowing such conditions to exist as those described in this letter...
Contract Termination Is Crux...
...words "approved by . . ." comes the crux of the entire plan submitted by Dean Buck's committee. Whereas the Yale program is obviously a hodge-podge of requirements which have been formulated by compromise between long-standing interests, the Buck Committee demonstrates that there are certain values available to the student from General Education--and the Committee says Harvard should supply that education for all students...
...China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the ultimate responsibility for China's government. General Chou would not budge either. In Chungking's concessions he saw no termination of "one-party dictatorship." But the political crux of the matter was that Yenan's one-party dictatorship dared not, any more than Chungking, surrender control over the military forces on which its power is based and its survival depends...