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...Part of the Indian press, said he, is dirty, indulges in "vulgarity, indecency and falsehood." To teach it manners, Nehru proposed an amendment to India's constitution that would impose severe restrictions on freedom of speech and expression. He asked for power to curb the press and to punish persons and newspapers for "contempt of court, defamation and incitement to an offense." Nehru told Parliament: "It has become a matter of the deepest distress to me to see the way in which the less responsible news sheets are being conducted . . . not injuring me or this House much, but poisoning...
...punish the enemy for invading Korea, Truman was willing last June to fight Korean Communists, Filipino Communists and Viet Minh Communists. All that MacArthur suggested was that he be allowed to fight some different Chinese Communists from the ones who were fighting him. No, said the President on April 11, that would be widening...
There are many other reasons why Massachusetts should not make the mistake that Maryland made in 1949, if only that it already has wide authority over the political actions of all its employees and can certainly punish treasonable action by citizens...
Meanwhile, a basketball coaches committee meeting in Minneopalis drew up an eight-point recommendation aimed at purifying their blackened sport, suggesting that a Federal law punish bribe offerers...
Last week the U.S. State Department began to wake up to a question: How do we settle this thing, anyway? As it looked around for an answer, its eyes were bound (unless it blinkered them) to fall on the Chinese mainland, where opportunity was growing to punish the Communist aggressors at relatively little cost to the free world (see below...