Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany, claiming racial superiority, likes to point to her wide lead in the number of Nobel awards...
...decade and to raise Common Sense to a level of intellectual respectability. They have by now published contributions by most of the right left-people-John Dos Passos, John Chamberlain, John Dewey, Marquis Childs, Stephen Spender, et al. They have ground axes for India's freedom, racial equality, a nonpunitive peace. They have also succeeded for ten years in running an average deficit of around $700 a month...
Bigger nations than Switzerland have been consumed by Nazi fury for fewer sins. Switzerland is democratic; she is "polyglot"; her largest racial group is German. Her culture is incurably liberal and her biggest political party is Social Democratic. She is home and symbol of the world's greatest experiments in the internationalism which the Nazis detest: the League of Nations and the Red Cross. Now, with war in the Mediterranean, Switzerland has automatically become guilty of the cardinal sin: being in Hitler...
...week's end Washington authorities had been needled enough. They retorted. Reason for the censorship of some opinion, they said, is that Axis propagandists seize upon reports of Allied dissension, racial or otherwise, and feed them to European and South American peoples in exaggerated shapes. Explained U.S. Censor Byron Price: When foreign correspondents undertake to send abroad editorial comments which tend "to emphasize disunity in this country instead of stating the facts as they are," they must be censored...
...only on the battlefields of the world did democracy seem to be on the run. At home, there was bungling of the manpower, problem, of the gas and oil mixup, of racial disputes, of censorship and news dispensation. In Congress, politics played havoc with such measures as the lowered draft age and the tax bills. On the education front, college officials raised their voices in a pleading chorus crying for a blueprint from the War Manpower Commission, and Washington answered with equal vehemence that the job should be done by the colleges. Enticing reserve plans were set up by every...