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...Cabinet members said they intended to go slow on use of their new powers. Sawyer planned to start things off with a voluntary allocation program and only two broad orders-one to limit the building-up of inventories, the other a general priority edict directing manufacturers to fill military orders ahead of others. But few thought that such voluntary controls would work as the arms program picked up speed. And then, when every Cabinet member began to slap on his own pet controls, the U.S. might indeed find itself in an "impossible mess...
...Communists, who had expected eventually to be outlawed as a party, were surprised both at the suddenness and the form of MacArthur's edict. They appointed a new eight-man control group and called in vain for a general strike. They ground out denunciations of the purge. Japanese police were kept busy arresting minor Communists for attempts at public agitation against MacArthur's action...
...MacArthur edict is a peculiar instruction from a man who would teach Japan democracy. It is not directed against Communist espionage; instead it gags words and opinions, snatches that right to free expression which democracy supposedly protects. None of the 24 will be allowed to speak publically, and eight of them who are elected members of the Diet must resign. The ban is extended to seventeen editors of the Communist newspaper, "Akahata"; presumably these men must stop drawing Japanese characters...
...films, has been called honest, moving and classic. It remained for sharp-eyed Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen, who administers the industry's production code, to call it indecent and unacceptable for the bulk of U.S. moviegoers. Last week the picture's sponsors were fighting Breen's edict that the movie must be cut before it can go from the art theaters into most U.S. cinemansions...
According to the new edict, veterans already in school will not be able to enroll in additional courses after July 25, 1951. To a veteran graduating from the College in June, 1951, that would probably mean he couldn't go on to graduate school, even if he still had GI Bill time coming, said Monro...