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...Russian literature in public libraries he's endorsing the same tactics he condemns. There is no need to repeat the arguments against book censorship: they are well-known. And Fox's fears that little children are going to wander into the library and pick up the Communist Manifesto or even the New World Review, thinking them the same as Crime Comics, is pure hogwash...
...Iranian politics to take over. The fox, who had been waiting a long time, bounded in. Eightyish and four times Premier, Ahmed Qavam, a multimillionaire, is tough, ambitious and intrigue-loving. But in his own cynical way he is also an Iranian patriot. Qavam issued a hard-hitting manifesto: "The pilot has taken a new course. God help those who try to sabotage my reform endeavors." He announced he would try to solve the oil crisis in friendly talks with the British...
...Wyndham Lewis tried to rouse a whole generation of Englishmen with that manifesto, but Englishmen had every excuse for not paying attention. The manifesto appeared just as they were girding to meet the greater blast of World War I. Thirty-year-old Painter-Poet Lewis was soon in the army himself, and the authorities showed unusual imaginativeness by assigning him, as war artist, to the Canadian artillery at Vimy Ridge...
...dishonest tax, and they deserve all they get. Unscrupulous politicians have always understood that they could depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. Two of these measures were: "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax," and "Abolition of all right of inheritance." Well, our politicians, more concerned with votes than with the welfare of their country, have...
East German Communist leaders sensed that shrinking feeling. Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht hastily summoned party leaders of East Berlin. After 72 hours of "remorseless criticism," they issued a melancholy manifesto: "Fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan is handicapped by red tape, a reactionary attitude towards what is new, fear of responsibility, lack of discipline, laziness . . . There has developed a serious estrangement between party functionaries and the masses." Then Ulbricht announced ominously that new elections "on all levels of the party apparatus" will be held within a month...