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...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...Army's pressure on Britain to suppress British-created war news...
...that the War Department had proclaimed its "vested interest" in news of its doings, would the Army proceed to suppress such items as the Patton case, the poor start of the Attu campaign, and try to make the U.S. public think that everything is hunky-dory...
...desire to suppress news. ... If the incident . . . had promptly been disposed of and a truthful statement issued ... it probably would have been passed by as a happening following the difficult campaign in Sicily when nerves of officers and men had been severely strained." The Army & Navy Journal was even blunter: "General Patton [is] familiar with the Articles of War, and with the punishment of dismissal they prescribe for cruel treatment of a soldier or for conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the Service . . . [Patton] was not made subject to the Articles. . . . There are lessons to be drawn from...
...Himmler has managed to keep most of his SS divisions on the home front. In all cities the SS occupies strategic buildings. They have been fortified and stocked with ample supplies of arms, munitions and food. If the Blackshirts should be called by Himmler to suppress a people's rebellion, or an Army Putsch, they would gladly give their lives in fulfillment of their beloved "Nibelungenlied," which ends by the glorification of final destruction...