Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, President Harry Truman did his best to undo the damage.* Breaking the rule against direct quotation during White House conferences, he said: "Meatless and eggless days are for the purpose of saving grain. . . . When you save meat and poultry products you save grain, and grain is what is necessary to meet the hunger situation in Europe...
...that the Soviet Government have taken this violently aggressive line. From an external point of view it seems so foolish, and we wonder what is the real motive behind it. I cannot, myself, believe that it is the prelude to war. These 14 men in the Kremlin, who rule with despotic power the vast populations and territories of which they are the masters, are very capable and well informed. If their minds were set on war I cannot believe that they would not lull the easygoing democracies into a false sense of security. Hitler was a master of this...
...opinion, being used for internal purposes. If there are only 14 men all eyeing one another, deeply conscious of the enormous population they hold in chains of mind and spirit, enforced by terror, it may well be that they think it pays them and helps them to perpetuate their rule by representing to the otherwise blindfolded masses of the brave and goodhearted Russian people that the Soviet Government stands between them and a repetition of the horrors of invasion which they withstood, when it came, so manfully...
Ordered Obedience. The pupils must have "no personal interests opposed to the collective interests," and teachers are advised that "Soviet pedagogy does not repudiate methods of coercion." When a pupil is "unable ... to understand a given moral requirement. . . the rule may simply be given categorically and obedience ordered without specific explanations and proofs, with the warning that failure to conform will bring unpleasant consequences...
Such priceless evidence of contemporary scholarship is unfortunately very costly, according to Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf. Replacing course books rendered illegible by doodlers runs into hundreds of dollars per annum. A Library Council rule passed in 1937 assesses anyone who marks books for the full price of the volume, but it has proved difficult to enforce...