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...think this is as good a time and place as any to terminate speculation regarding me in a political way. I'm assuming that the office of Secretary of State ... is nonpolitical, and I will govern myself accordingly. I will never become involved in political matters, and therefore I never can be considered as a candidate for political office...
...peasants at every stop to stand fast and pay no taxes. "Some of you are afraid your land will be confiscated," he said in one speech. "What is confiscation? Will they take away your lands to England?" In another speech he set forth the principle that was to govern every Congress struggle of the future: "Every home must be a Congress office and every soul a Congress organization." Under Patel's orders the peasants' buffaloes, which the Government might have taken, were brought right into the peasants' houses. No servants would work for the Government collectors. Nobody...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...took charge of a study hall at Centennial High School, I thought I was in a bear garden. . . .* I have met rudeness and lack of control here more than anywhere else in the world [she has taught in England, India and Australia]. In America the child seems to govern the school, instead of school authorities governing the child...
...Indonesians govern themselves? Says Correspondent Sherrod: "They have done surprisingly well, and with some assistance-Dutch or otherwise-I think they can. Van Mook says the Indonesians have matured more in the past five years than in the previous...