Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Devens, Mass...
...They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans is beginning to understand this very well...
Deny a people the freedom of the Bill of Rights, and security becomes slavery, vocation forced labor, privacy concealment, the family a hutch for mass breeding, the school an outpost, of the state, social intelligence a technique of rationalization, art and literacy weapons to impose conformity, the person a subject...
...Whatever mass base the Communist Party has in this country is to be found among the professionals and so-called "intellectuals." This influence is reflected in the newspaper columns, the radio commentaries, the periodicals and publishing houses and other agencies of communication and education. When it goes into action, it can mold public opinion on many vital issues. Some brilliant feats have been pulled off-for example, the campaign for a second front, and the campaigns against Mihailovich and Chiang Kaishek...
...last WPTB hit on a system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into a beater vat. When the last coupon had disappeared into the bubbling mass of pulp, the inspectors went home...