Word: selfishnesses
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...women there was the old German formula of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church, Kitchen). "What is ruining France," wrote Le Figaro, in warning women to retire from professions and to have bigger families, "is the number of childless couples who live a selfish life appropriating two incomes from salaried positions...
...public opinion, which last year was unwilling to face the savage reality of war, last week was prepared to admit that it had a decisive, selfish, personal interest in what happened to the British Fleet. In its own way it had come to translate into blunt language what Lord Lothian had said indirectly from the start. And signs were accumulating that the world's greatest problem in statecraft-British and U. S. relations-was approaching a critical phase...
...Transradio and British United Press must "show their news source is accurate" or lose their licenses on July 1. B. U. P. was quietly reinstated a few days later. Meanwhile, Transradio's President Herbert Samuel Moore stormed up to Ottawa, angrily claiming there was a plot afoot by "selfish publishing and monopolistic interests ... to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion." Last week CBC (which sits in judgment on all Canadian broadcasters) reconsidered, agreed to let Transradio Press continue indefinitely. But CBC still frowns on sponsored news, announced that it will work out a new plan for Dominion stations...
...stake is more than money: the obligations of the U. S. to its Filipino dependents, its dedication to an independent China, its selfish interest in keeping the Axis out of the Pacific...
Last week President Moore was in Ottawa, trying to convince CBC officials that these sources are "authentic." Said he, darkly: "Selfish publishing and monopolistic interests in Canada . . . have leagued themselves together to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion...