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...this not like Hitler's book-burnings ? If Chaucer must be banned because he tells us that medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
Whether the Germans were ready for self-government was doubtful. Until the Potsdam conference all political activity in the U.S. zone had been forbidden, since then it had not been encouraged. To the exclusion of politics, problems of food, fuel and shelter preoccupied the Germans. Washington decided that U.S. food would go to Germany this winter; otherwise starvation and disorder would preclude the building of a Germany run by anti-Nazi Germans...
This week the Thirteenth and Fifty-second Chinese Armies embarked on U.S. transports at the extreme south of China and headed up the coast to Manchuria. So far forbidden by Russia to land at the theoretically international port of Dairen, some will land at nearby fishing ports; others will land below the Great Wall and walk into Manchuria. They will either meet Russian policy face to face, or glimpse its retreating back. Under the Sino-Russian treaty of August, Stalin promised to withdraw his Red Army from Manchuria on or about Nov. 15; now it looks as if the Central...
...Picasso still life unhelpfully entitled Painting, in white, yellow, pale blue and black, showed that Old Master Picasso still wielded a powerful brush. Forbidden to exhibit during the occupation, he painted every day. Picasso's message to U.S. artists: "Tell them to work hard - like...
...know of no demobilization in history either in war or peace by our own or by any other country that has been accomplished so rapidly or so frictionlessly. Everything military, naval or air is forbidden to Japan. This ends its military might and its military influence in international affairs. It no longer reckons as a world power either large or small. Its path in the future, if it is to survive, must be confined to the ways of peace...