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Reluctant Witnesses. The British authorities could not tolerate this sort of intimidation. They decided to bring Reimann to trial for "encouraging discrimination against Germans who cooperate with the Allies." But they failed to police Düsseldorf's courthouse adequately and the Reds went into their act; they turned the hearing itself into a propaganda demonstration...
...Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who are fortunate enough not to be subjected to investigations of any sort themselves. The following quotations I dredge up from a pamphlet called "Communism and Education, the third in a series on the Communist conspiracy and its influences in this country as a whole on religion, on education, on labor, and on our government." The pamphlet was prepared and released by the last...
...this sort of thing suppressing academic freedom...
...nice, orderly trial. There was a little stir when people saw Goldwasser come in-him a white man-holding Amy's arm, and carrying Amy's baby. One farmer couldn't help saying out loud: "Don't that make you sick?" But it was sort of comical too. The defense made Goldwasser a witness; this enabled them to send him outside the courtroom as soon as the trial started...
Wave of Indignation. When peace broke out, François de Wendel became chairman of France's famous Comité des Forges, a sort of super lobby combining all of France's steel, iron and armament firms. He sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...