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...State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature is all that is necessary to make it law - and wily Quezon scarcely anticipates a veto from President Roosevelt. Quezon has also asked and obtained from the Assembly "emergency" powers which give him authority to suppress espionage, prohibit strikes or lockouts, mobilize citizens for whatever productive pusuits he deems necessary. On the subject of the State he has proclaimed: "Organized society is predicated upon the willingness of men to limit their freedom in the interest of the well-being of the entire community." On the subject...
...Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...
Mostly Miscellaneous Things: Even ardent musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...
...cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British broadcasting station" on a wave length which turned out to be Hamburg. The Churchill Cabinet, predicted leading British Communists, will shortly suppress the Communist Party. The Government decreed a $1,750 penalty for the new crime of exporting from the United Kingdom copies of either Action, the British Fascist weekly, or the Communist London Daily Worker...
...Fundamentally, the reason that the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The reason why modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...