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Bishop Fjellbu (pronounced fyellboo) warned against any "attempt to pass judgment on capitalism and communism as economic systems"; the church, he said, should condemn "only a totalitarianism which makes claims on the whole man and seeks to restrict his religious freedom." Bishop Dibelius, who referred to Western Berlin as "a fortress amid the Red Sea," wanted strong language...
...conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in London this week, the British planned to spread the austerity by asking all of the Dominions to restrict dollar purchases. Economist-Politician Cripps, with one eye on the dollar and the other on the general elections due within a year, walked a tortuous path. He and other Western politicians faced a delicate job in telling the public just how big the crisis...
...your action? The immediate objective in such attacks on academic freedom as you have described is indeed the teacher and his right his duty, to search honestly for truth; but the ultimate objective is to strike through the teacher to the student himself. The ultimate intention is to restrict the range of ideas which the student may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may be melded to a "safe" and fairly rigid pattern...
Antitrust. Monopolists were having a rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
...Washington, the Justice Department asked CAB to go slow on an order which would restrict (and perhaps drive out of business) most small nonscheduled lines. DOJ thought the little fellows did a lot of good. Said DOJ: "The subsidized . . . carriers have little incentive to curtail extravagances in the absence of competition...