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West Berlin's Socialist Telegraf last week reported that state-run nurseries in Germany's Soviet zone have been ordered to lull their tots to sleep with a new nursery rhyme...
From Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
...that have caused the biggest arguments are three and four. The former would lower the age at which citizens become eligible for old-age pensions from 65 to 63, and raise the monthly allowance from an average of $40 to a minimum of $75; the latter would establish a state-run lottery. The legislature voted down the lottery proposal in 1935, but in 1940 the people in 30 of the state's 40 senatorial districts voted to advise their senators to support it if it were again brought up. This year, faced with an issue that can be debated...
...fear--fear of communism, fear of the strength of its adherents and their ability to win followers. Driven by this fear, colleges and universities have fired teachers and forced faculties to take loyalty oaths. Driven by this fear state legislatures have established these oaths in schools they control, and have set up committees to investigate teachers' loyalty. On private and state-run campuses the entire membership of certain organizations has been barred from teaching by blanket rulings...
...when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked...