Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has been "growing consciousness of Japan's war guilt." ¶ Schools, teachers and textbooks are being completely reformed. (Last week MacArthur invited 30 leading U.S. educators to visit Japan and make recommendations.) ¶ Instead of thought control, "the press, radio, cinema and theater are now free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour, The Voice of the People. ¶ The theater, which during the war was "solely a militarist propaganda medium," has been "given...
...that if some of the unimportant things could be decided for us it would give us more freedom to develop as individuals. I never want to impose on the Wellesley girls a uniform and one locker . . . but I found that even under such a discipline, a girl could express her individuality in the very way that she wore...
...London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...
...Queen, who likes to consider herself a Cockney by choice if not by birth, is happiest in London. Only on the express command of George VI did she consent to sit out the war in Gloucestershire. Now she is back in blitzed but unbroken Maryborough House, living in six of its 200 rooms with a handful of loyal retainers on her civil grant of ?70,000 ($280,000) a year. She hardly ever entertains any more. When she does, her meals are patriotically, chillingly austere...
...twin, David Whitmire, is assistant publisher of the Los Angeles Herald & Express...