Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear of offending was such that nobody was bold enough to press the Argentine delegation for a report on, say, freedom of the press in Buenos Aires. It was not the thing to ask the representative from South Africa for a summation of the state of racial tolerance in the Transvaal, or to cross-question Egyptians on the rule of law and the state of human rights in their country "without distinction, of race, sex, language or religion." Even the Americans, constantly pressing for bold action, remained diffident. "We can't afford to give the impression that...
...Larger Battlefield? The corruption of many Chinese leaders is given as the reason why the U.S. cannot effectively "aid China" against the Communists. Against the background given by the Bolton report, corruption takes on a different look. It is not just an old Chinese custom, nor a piece of bad luck. It is the normal situation that the U.S. has to face in the three-fourths of the world which is industrially backward. That three-fourths, as the British and others have learned, cannot be kept indefinitely in a state of tutelage to Western ideas. It will move into...
...Communists in China welcomed war because it hastened the undermining of society that Western progress had begun. The Bolton report describes the process...
...role of the Chinese Red army has never been clear to Westerners, who have been taught to look upon it as a sort of sustained Wat Tyler's rebellion of enraged peasants. Says the Bolton report...
They translated the school laws into everyday language, and had them published in newspapers throughout the state, so that everyone could judge them. They denounced the state administration for spending $25,000 to investigate the school system, and then hiding the report from the public. Finally, the council began its most ambitious project: it sent out committees to investigate the condition of every one of Delaware's 164 public schools. Last week, the first report went out to educators, legislators, and civic groups all over the state...