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Chinese Pandemonium broke loose when, day after the Pax Britannica was initialed, the Chinese Government of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed orders to Chinese mayors and garrison commanders to suppress promptly and at once any anti-Japanese societies or other boycott groups in their districts...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...
Last week the Supreme Court reviewed the case. A strong decision written by Justice Cardozo held that while it was legal to modify the original decree, economic conditions had not changed sufficiently to warrant it, that a modification would tend to suppress competition. The lower court was reversed, the packers ordered back to their beef, pork & mutton...
...Liberal Club is not so naive as to believe in the existence of a "right" to free speech and agitation when this "right" conflicts with ruling class interest. It realizes that in an industrial crisis the machinery of the State is used to suppress by any means the activity of militant working-class unions. And it is with these unions, of which Edith Berkman was a member and organizer, that we sympathize and propose to defend. E. Y. Hartshorne...
...citizen protection against political tyranny by the Federal Government. Because it dealt in abstractions, the Supreme Court, by interpretations, had wide latitude in defining such relative terms as "reasonable," "arbitrary" and "legitimate." Thus a century of evolution transformed the 5th Amendment into a weapon with which the Court could suppress any regulatory experiments by Congress of which it disapproved. In the hands of the Supreme Court the 5th Amendment wrecked an effort to establish a minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia, on the ground that such a law violated "liberty of contract." Likewise zoning laws were...