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Unless the facts, the significant facts, the difficult, complicated facts of industry and finance and politics are put before the people, the people cannot govern themselves in an industrial society...
...Press must assist the people to govern themselves. And to do that, the Press must offer to the people of this country in the next few decades such an amount and such a quality of instruction in the facts and problems of public affairs as no people yet under the sun have been willing or able to receive. This will involve telling some very unpalatable facts...
...talk is of a cut to 50%. Some alarmists said the Govern-ment would take over the whole business-buying, selling and distributing. OPA big shots wondered how to ration coffee, tentatively planned to use the sugar cards, already distributed. But U.S. citizens were worried most of all-with gin, Coca-Cola, tea and coffee all scarce or near-scarce, the future had a milk & water look...
...full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with out him and set him free to maintain the peace...
...fellow Americans may think that they should be treated as political prisoners. The Federal officials who are administering this camp are very courteous and considerate toward all of us. We do not have a jail here yet, and the administration says that it will try to let the Japanese govern themselves as much as possible. A report that the evacuees here will not be paid more than $21 a month did very little, if any, damage to the morale of the evacuees. They are now saying that since they are being well housed, well fed and protected by the Government...