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...choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people who in their ignorance are more apt to use it to subvert than to uphold constitutional government. Very sincerely yours, Laurence Davis...
...same, Australians felt safer last week with a squadron of U. S. warships in Sydney harbor, U. S. sailors roaming Sydney's streets. In Melbourne, when he heard of the three-day celebration for Admiral Newton's men, amiable Minister Kawai smiled politely. Japan, he said, regarded the visit as a good-will gesture. He would visit the ships himself, if he were invited...
...undertake no new adventure in the Balkans. He could scarcely afford to attack Greece from Bulgaria alone-through what the Yugoslavs could make a deathtrap, the Struma River Valley. He would have to be sure first of the Yugoslav flank; he would like to have Yugoslavia's broader, safer Vardar Valley...
Perhaps, ventured a reporter, the simplest way out was to discontinue Army and Navy testimony before closed committees. The President agreed that it would be much safer, but said that naturally the Government did not like to leave Congress out in the cold on vital information...
Theoretically to grant dictatorial powers to F. D. R. is undesirable, it is undemocratic, it savors of totalitarianism, and it would be better and safer to have the Congress in session to pass on moves and policies. But these are ideals and are impractical, they would lead to disaster and defeat because the Congress is incapable of even reasonably quick action...