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...York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven...
After his summation of the arguments, current sincethe revocation of the Edict of Nantes and before, in favor, of religious freedom, and the statement that he too favored religious freedom, the Alabama Senator said "I did join the Ku Klux Klan; I later resigned; I never re-joined," and that was all. He did not even hint at what was in his mind when he did join. He did not give the reasons which impelled him to leave the Invisible Empire. He said that he did not know what was on the records of the Klan or what...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...
With the rise of C.I.O., Mr. Ryan, a supporter of the A.F. of L., was fearful that the Independent Union would tie up with John L. Lewis. Hence his sudden edict: Cunard White Star must use I.L.A. men in Montreal or I.L.A. men would not serve its ships...
...hard-fisted James C. Petrillo, president of Chicago's Federation of Musicians. Last week he launched his most daring offensive against music canners by forbidding any member of the Chicago union to make a record, beginning Feb. 1, 1937, without permission of his executive board. Many called the edict brave, more declared it impracticable. But possibly it might be the first move in a campaign of national proportions...