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...executive council reaffirmed its vow to improve "wages and working conditions for labor," and win for labor its fair share of increased earnings. Set up by the council was a lobby to keep a watchful eye on Congress. Said C. I. O. President Philip Murray: "If foolhardy statesmen believe that they can impose restrictions on working men and women to stop their legitimate efforts to pursue their legal rights, then I say to those so-called statesmen that they are making a great mistake." (In short, C. I. O. labor was not going to give up its right to strike...
...London Times with Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon on the Mount, the standards quite clearly presupposed a new society...
Britain's institutions have been put to their most searching test in the past month by intensified bombings and tightened counter-blockade. Responsible editors and statesmen alike spoke out with stark frankness, and what they spoke was not altogether cheering...
Last week a little old man died in Japan. He was respectfully mourned in his own country, but out across the world his passing was recognized as the passing of an era. Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 91, last of the Genro, or Elder Statesmen, was also the last representative of the age in Japan which was dedicated to what today's Japanese call "dangerous thoughts"-the age of Liberalism...
...front page of Moscow's Pravda appeared a photograph of two blandly smiling statesmen. The caption: "Comrade V. M. Molotov and Mr. A. Hitler in the new Reich Chancellery...