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...Prime Minister proclaimed the Liberals' platform for re-election on June 10 as a dedication to "peace, prosperity and social security." At whistle stops, he moved among greeters, giving out a kindly, personable dignity. For groups of schoolchildren, he had a glowing little lecture on their opportunities in Canada's future. At a rodeo in Edmonton, he introduced two pretty cowgirls as "the nieces of Uncle Louis...
...Foundation Day, schoolchildren in black robes were led out for compulsory rites honoring the God-Emperor, bowing toward the great walled palace in Tokyo as Moslems bow toward Mecca. Shops were closed, and throughout Japan's four main islands Shinto priests, stiff-backed, wearing their lacquered black horsehair headgear, intoned the virtues and divinity of Japan and its Emperor in high-pitched ululations understandable for the most part only to relatively few initiates...
There, in the annual Oration and Poem, the emphasis on "the promotion of literature" is just as strong as it was when Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous address on "The American Scholar" in 1837. In it, in lines which nineteenth century schoolchildren recited at class ceremonies, he expressed the ambitious thoughts which might be the motto of the Phi Beta Kappa Society itself...
Like lion cubs unleashed, San Fernando Valley schoolchildren in the Pacoima area of Los Angeles burst out of classrooms one morning last week to test returning sunshine and the soft sea air that had swept away a week's foul weather. They found the world newly come alive, trees and stuccoed buildings glistening magically in rain-washed brilliance. Overhead, winter's deep blue sky throbbed to the scream of jets and the snarl of conventional piston engines. But to the San Fernando Valley's children, raised around Southern California's cluster of major aircraft plants...
Under the Stalinists, Roman Catholic schoolchildren in Poland were harassed by the state when they chose to go to religion classes. Now the shoe appears to be on the other foot. Newspapers all over Poland are carrying complaints of Communists that their children are being teased, ostracized, and sometimes beaten up for not attending religious instruction...