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...Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
...West Germany their numbers have dropped from 300,000 to 100,000; last month in Austria's elections they got but four out of 165 seats. In 1946 there were 16 Communists among the cabinet ministers of Western Europe; now there are none. Their party membership rolls shrink, their newspapers lose readers by the hundreds, in some cases have already folded...
...Harvard's world, at any rate. Everyone knows that the seats in the Stadium, at New Lecture Hall, and at the Indoor Athletic Building were designed solely to accommodate ectomorphs. Now it appears that the style sultans in New York and London are making clothes expressly designed to shrink the masculine form...
While most Harvard administrators have sighed with relief as enrollment lost its post-war bulge, the Summer School has unhappily watched its yearly enrollment shrink to the red ink line of its budget. Last summer's drop of twenty percent has brought new problems, both financial and academic for the School...
Meanwhile, "coexistence is not a form of passive acquiescence in things as they are. It is waging the contest between freedom and tyranny by peaceful means. It will involve negotiation and adjustment -compromise but never appeasement-and I will never shrink from these if they advance the world toward secure peace...