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...Rome last week heavy contingents of Italian troops broke up a demonstration before the U.S. Embassy, then ostentatiously stood guard day & night. Italian officers were forbidden to speak to U.S. attachés. U.S. films were banned from Italy. Professor Guido Manacorda of the University of Florence made a speech before the Italian Center for American Studies in which he called the U.S. "a civilization of robbers, the godless, the divorcees, the gangsters, the lynchers, the strikers and the unemployed...
Reactions to the revelation that the University had forbidden a Negro athlete to participate in a contest with a team from the Naval Academy came from three sources yesterday as undergraduates formed to protest, the H. A. A. explained its action, and the Navy officials denied responsibility for the whole matter...
...indignation was reflected in a Gallup poll, which indicated that 72% of the public was sure that strikes in defense industries should be forbidden. Bills to curb strikes, unions, union activity were considered in Congress, in many a State legislature. The Oklahoma Senate, the Texas House, the Georgia Legislature had already voted such measures. New York's Senate passed one last week. Everywhere the conviction-sometimes the almost hysterical conviction-grew that something must be done. But what...
...House Correspondents' Association, after the heavy-handed political clowning that marks newsmen's gatherings, President Roosevelt spoke for 34 minutes. All the national networks carried his voice. From Boston, short-wave broadcasts repeated it in 14 European languages. The British rebroadcast it and sent translations to the forbidden radios of Germany. Said...
...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...