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...line, I suppose, with your political views, the suggestions you make are extremely reactionary, and would reverse the presumable progress of the last 30 years toward greater and greater freedom for students, more and more of what President Lowell called "self-education", as opposed to school-boy disciplinarian-ism...
Meanwhile rising French unemployment crossed the 400,000 mark for the first time. Admittedly M. Flandin-younger than Roosevelt, Mussolini or Stalin*- faces a titanic task in attempting to bring French economy back to an even keel without invoking some spectacular "ism." Interviewed last week by the New York Times's smart Anne O'Hare McCormick, the tall, big-boned, broad-browed Premier declared...
...liberalism have made Red-fearing citizens plague the University's President Robert Gordon Sproul with demands for investigation. Sproul the Educator shot back a stout defense of academic freedom. To students arriving for this year's session he boomed: "Learn about Communism, Socialism and every other 'ism' so that you may balance . . . one against the other, but don't be misled" (TIME...
...California's Robert Gordon Sproul: I am no flag-waving jingo but I have grown infinitely weary of the deprecation of America and American institutions. Listen and learn about Communism, Socialism and every other "ism" so that you may balance the different systems one against the other, but don't be misled...
...theory of eliminating both extremes of society, the insecure proletariat and the plutocrat seeking to gain more power through the use of his idle wealth is not socialism or communism any other ism, Lippmann declared. On the contrary it is a project to "make the people independent of the state...