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Soviet Russia does not claim it is a democracy, but it does claim to be our staunch ally in war and in the peace to come. We do not have to condone every institution of the Soviet system any more than they will condone out poll tax laws, or our race discrimination while they have practically none. Both nations have chosen their own system and neither should impair the united struggle against fascism by mocking the other's political faith...
...Council's plan fear dictatorship because of the committee's control of date assignments and its countersignature of contracts. While they desire a clearing house's advice on slippery band agents, these individualists demand the right to do as they please about accepting it. Their arguments sound like the staunch states' rights stand of the Republicans in the Landon campaign...
...need exists for the passage of anti-lynching legislation. Such a bill too often is backed by a group of self-called northern liberals, a group with little or no knowledge of and less desire to understand the South. A group which 80 years ago would have been staunch abolitionists and supporters of reconstruction. And too often a group filled with the human urge to meddle--in a time when there's too much meddling...
...might be expected, the Frazier verses, given a sympathetic reading by Jimmy Rushing, with Count Basie's band offering staunch instrumental support, were not written to glorify the academic stature, or even the gridiron triumphs, of his alma mater. They discuss rather the Harvard Hollywood and the rest of the country know and don't love. "Oh, I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time" and "Oh, I don't keep dogs or women in my room" are a couple of choice excerpts from the Frazier rhymes, and there are others...
...church. But now along comes President Roosevelt and points to an obscure article in the still more obscure Russian constitution saying that religion is to be permitted. Gone from the picture are the volumes written against the church and Christianity, gone are the memories of the deaths of those staunch souls who resisted, gone are the tirades of Stalin against the Christian creed. In suppose Russians are being told that the people of the United States love communism because communists had a chance to talk over here. And now comes the best one of all. The other...