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...lest anyone should suspect this of being a legitimate conversion to interventionism--that is, a conversion based on a rational re-assessment of the present world situation--, we beg leave to inform all interested parties that the "conversion" is simply the result of a numerical change in the political balance of the CRIMSON staff brought about by the appointment of new members to the staff to replace the outgoing class of '41. In re-reading that editorial, then, one should be careful to throw out the force that a genuine conversion is supposed to lend to the force...
...switch from the present method, the following compromise was suggested by Gene Keith, and I would recommend that it be adopted for next year. The regular pledges and collections will be made in Memorial Hall preceded by a sizeable article in the registration issue of the Crimson which will inform the Freshmen and some of the upper classmen what they are giving their money for. The article might include pictures of Brooks House activities and section graphs illustrating the distribution of our expenditures, etc. Then in November there would be a door-to-door drive by members of the Council...
...fact is that the very worthy American Friends Service Committee, while it has unquestionably been doing valuable work, is by no means the only organization with representatives in France. While I am not qualified to speak on behalf of [other] organizations . . . I can inform you that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which conducts large-scale relief operations in both Occupied and Unoccupied France, has representatives throughout those territories under the direction of American citizens...
Sfirete detectives, French Legion members (veterans of both World Wars) and Vichy police have comprised an informal French Gestapo to spy and inform upon anti-Vichy tendencies. Vichy's drive to put Jewish businesses under non-Jewish supervisors continued, with more than 265 enterprises added to the list, including a Normandy textile mill and dyeing plant owned by French-Jewish Novelist Andre Maurois...
...fourth estate; it is almost a fourth branch of government. It is not, as in Germany or the U.S.S.R., a branch of the government, .but a part of our constitutional system. It is impossible to imagine governmental processes in the U.S. without a press. Its first function is to inform, its second to criticize. Censorship is a direct threat to both functions and hence a direct threat to effective democracy...