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Both Dewey and Warren have been charged with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...
Lippmann does not condemn treaty clauses, but thinks an ounce of good example is worth a pound of law. Said he: "Our own best contribution to the great cause of freedom of the press will be to avoid any self-righteous assumption that we here have achieved freedom of the press in its perfected and final form. We have not. . . . The more convincingly we show that the freedom we enjoy produces good results, promoting the saving truth rather than debasing public sentiment, the more we shall serve the cause of the freedom of the press...
...Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
There was no doubt that something new had been added to Japanese air power. Tokyo recently broadcast that three new types were in action. The types: a patrol plane, the Shite (the doer); a heavy bomber, the Donryu (the destroying dragon); and a fighter, the Shoki (Righteous Purifying Spirit). "In annihilation operations," Tokyo boasted, the new planes had "made the enemy America and Britain shiver with fear...
With a straight face and a self-righteous air the War Shipping Administration last week announced the most ironic U.S. aid-to-China yet: two Liberty ships.* Thus for the first time in modern history China will have an ocean-going merchant marine of her own. But, for the first time ever, she has no coastline: until the Jap is thrown out of China, her spanking new 20,000-ton fleet can serve only U.S. and British ports...