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Before even considering a loan to Britain, would it not be wise first to obtain a guarantee from her that none of this money would be used to suppress peoples who are attempting to gain their independence...
...absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost of creating an atmosphere of censorship?' " He sometimes scolded Smith girls for knitting or gum-chewing in class. "Smoking," he once told them, "is a dirty, expensive and unhygienic habit, to which I am devoted." When he lifted the ban on tobacco...
...strongman is a onetime oilfield mechanic, stocky Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka (party name "Wies-law"), 41, who says: "We are carrying out a revolution. ... In the interests of democracy, order and also expediency, we must accommodate open vocal opposition. It will be much more dangerous if we suppress...
...here . . . they do not suppress demonstrations with harmless tear gas; shooting does the trick. Many a man remains lying on the streets, but not even as a joke does one read any reference to these events. . . . Newspapers are forbidden to report the truth...
...them and for the world India's New Year's mood: "[We] will not willingly submit to any empire or any domination, and will revolt against it. It will be a continuing revolt of millions, with a passion behind it which even the atomic bomb will not suppress...