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Dewey lived up to his own dictates; when not writing his practical philosophy, he was practicing it. While teaching at Chicago and Columbia he started the system of progressive education that is now the basis, at least to some degree, of most American public education. About half of the articles...
Chambers' personal questioning of the Communist program was spurred by the Great Purge of 1936-38. "The Purge, like the Communist-Nazi pact later on, was the true measure of Stalin as a revolutionary statesman. That was the horror of the Purge-that acting as a Communist, Stalin had...
La Paz also announced an army purge. Thirty-six officers, among them eleven generals, have been discharged to face trial for alleged crimes committed under the preceding regimes since 1946.
It was Captain (later Rear Admiral) Hideo Hiraide who broke the news to the Japanese people on Dec. 7, 1941: "In the early morning, units of the imperial navy launched an attack on Pearl Harbor ... Two battleships sunk, four severely damaged . . ." Last week Admiral Hiraide and 451 others, put on...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He...