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...change in government operations, but Eden, still the heir apparent to Churchill, would get some needed background in domestic affairs. No sooner had this change been made than a hitch developed. The Foreign Secretary came down with jaundice, and the Foreign Office announced he would have to restrict his activities "for a number of weeks...
...Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether to print it. But the clause was the beginning of a chain reaction of proposals to restrict the press...
...information. Since the value of the thesis does not depend on who gave the information, the thesis-writer can call him simply "a government source," and any "scholar" who really wants to know the informant's name can write to the author requesting it. It is certainly absurd to restrict a whole thesis just because one small part of it is attributed to a man whose name need not be used. When a newspaper gets an "off-the-record" interview, it either uses the material without giving the interviewee's name or runs nothing; it certainly does not write...
...Sixteenth or income tax Amendment--passed in 1913. The solution, then, is to restore the limitation that prevailed from 1789 to 1913 by a Constitutional amendment to limit the federal tax take for non-military purposes to 5% of the national income. Such an amendment would forcibly restrict the government to its "legitimate" function (which remains undefined along with the amendment's necessary disastrous effects on our government's foreign and domestic commitments...
...magazine of opinion," says New Republic Editor and Financial Angel Michael Straight, "has a rough time nowadays. You tend to restrict your opinions more & more to make them coincide with the opinions of your readers and sometimes you find you have restricted yourself to rather small groups." As proof, Editor Straight could point to his own magazine. Once a rallying point for liberals, the New Republic has steadily restricted its opinions while swinging from the New Deal to Henry Wallace, and back to the Fair Deal when Wallace became a presidential candidate. Result: its group of readers...