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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill preserved a dignified silence. Although more & more people felt that it was time for the West to establish some sort of clear-cut relationship with Franco Spain, the Caudillo's invective had won him no friends in Britain, and his coos had moved Washington not a whit. Said one madrileño last week: "We are alone, and always will be-until," he added hopefully, "something happens...
...trenches through neighboring gardens, put neighboring houses to the torch. When one group of soldiers started to chop down Mrs. Hawkings' trees, she told them: "We've lived in this house for 27 years and brought up five daughters here, and we can't have this sort of thing going on." The soldiers, overwhelmed by her bearing and her perfect Chinese, obediently put away their hatchets...
There were hopeful signs. Television seemed to have stirred a new appetite for small variety acts. For two years RKO had put on a sort of vaudeville once a week in 18 of its New York houses; in recent months, the one-night stands had caught on heavily with moviegoers...
...methods and the reasoning of the attacks on Communism in this country, and especially on teaching, have been both crude and subtle. The crude approach, as exemplified by such groups as the Barnes Bill partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology...
Over 30 states now require loyalty oaths of some sort from teachers and public employees. Many of these oaths are little more than pledges of allegiance to state and federal constitutions...