Word: governments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have set them free, if they are merely to exchange one kind of bondage for another! What reason is there to believe that American engineers, doctors, movie executives and others, after only four months' training and without precise knowledge of the necessary foreign languages, would be fitted to govern countries better than the natives themselves? It is certain that they would not. It is only reasonable to suppose that all the countries now subject to foreign rule are planning exactly what is to be done for their own relief when freedom comes. Time enough then for us to give...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
Disclaiming some Jewish ritual, notably Rosh Hashanah (New Year), Boake Carter observes Saturday as the Sabbath and celebrates the Passover. He eats nothing that is not kosher, though he prefers to call it "Biblically cooked." When he was studying the rules that govern his diet, he made a trip to Manhattan's aquarium and "checked on the habits of forbidden lobsters, crabs and oysters...
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...