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Combat Leftist "Drivel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Republican Club For Leftist Opposition Recruits This Evening | 11/4/1947 | See Source »

...From this time forward," continued the statement, "there will be at Harvard an organization around which can rally those students--and there are many--who have 'had enough' of Communist disloyalty and socialist drivel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Republican Club For Leftist Opposition Recruits This Evening | 11/4/1947 | See Source »

Transatlantic Drivel. The reaction could scarcely have been worse. London's usually sober Economist blew its top. It growled: "American opinion should be warned that over here, in Great Britain, one has the feeling of being driven into a corner by a complex of American actions and insistencies which, in combination, are quite intolerable." Then it snapped: "Not many people in this country believe the Communist thesis that it is the deliberate and conscious aim of American policy to ruin Britain and everything that Britain stands for in the world. But the evidence can certainly be read that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Tough Years Ahead | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Washington talked comparable drivel. Experts there blamed the British for not foreseeing the "run on the bank." Washington's own overoptimism was dying hard. It still professed hopes of a freer trading world, based on the agreement which 18 nations had reached last week at Geneva. But nobody in Washington had a clear answer to this question: How was the world going to move toward freer trade until a businessman could once again walk into a bank and exchange one currency for another at a rate fixed by the operation of free markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Tough Years Ahead | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...mostly by civilian students, and it was being read largely by military and naval personnel. Editors were out of touch with their readers. There came a point where most of the stories were of no interest, or very little interest, to the majority of readers, who were appeased with drivel written by their own representatives. To wit, this is from Scuttlebut...

Author: By James G. and Trager Jr., S | Title: Parasol in Hand, Service News, Teetered Down Editorial High Wire in Search for Will O' the Wisp Impartiality | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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