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...imperfect world not all individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England in such terms! Imagine placards crying 'Death to Dewey...
When Jacob NicoL left his house one brisk September morning in 1946, the world looked bright. He was living comfortably in Roxton Pond, Que., had a profitable trucking business and a pretty dark-haired bride of two days. When he returned that night, his world had suddenly collapsed. His wife, Lucile, had left him to go back to her mother. Nicol knew what that meant. A Baptist, he had courted Lucile, a Roman Catholic, for seven years before eloping with her to Vermont. His widowed mother-in-law, Mme. Oviline Charrois Labrecque, made it clear that she was determined...
...FRIDHANDLER Montreal, Que...
Harvard Club of Seattle, Irving Clark, '41, 533 Dexter-Horton Building; Harvard Club of Syracuse, E. Tefft Banker '37, Hiscock, Cowle, Bruce, Lee and Mawhinney, Syracuse; Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., Captain William E. Eaton, 2901 Que...
Yell Leaders. Both the "papers of opinion" and the "papers of information" make the most of that freedom. "We are Latins," boasts stocky René Naegelen, publisher of Le Populaire. "Our press, on aime que fa gueule-we like it to yell!" The press makes no secret of its prejudices; the slogans of political parties and factions are emblazoned on mastheads. "To be informed," said an American newsman in Paris, "the Parisian must read at least five or six dailies. He must be more sophisticated and analytical than American readers. But after stripping opinions from the facts, he not only...