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...with the military commander of Paris discussing precautions that must be taken to prevent any Communist demonstration on Aug. 1. A trifle tartly M. Tardieu explained the subtle difference between the revolutionists of 1830, whom he delighted to honor, and the revolutionists of 1930 whom he was eager to suppress...
...Siles-Kundt regime. General Kundt met this in the only way he knew. Police blocked every exit from the square, machine guns wheeled into position. Under their hideous rattle 100 screaming boys fell never to rise again. As many more were wounded. The Government did its best to suppress news of the riot but Bolivians had seen the bodies in the streets. The country was aroused. General Kundt posted loyal troops on the hills above the capital, threatened to bombard the city. Police were ordered to shoot any man, woman or child who appeared on the streets. Wrote United Pressman...
...Orleans States and Shreveport Times accused hotheaded, dimple-chinned little Governor Huey P. Long-self-styled "Kaiser" of Louisiana-of drunkenness and consorting with criminals. The following month Governor Long was impeached by the House of Representatives on one of 19 charges for having "attempted to suppress the freedom of the press" by threatening to expose the fact that Editor Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge State Times had a brother in an insane asylum. But Governor Long, supported by the State Senate, was never tried. Fortnight ago Col. Ewing (onetime Long supporter), incensed when the Governor had forced...
Bill No. 2 was a replica of Minnesota's Gag Law, now appealed before the Supreme Court of the U. S. Any citizen who believed himself injured by a publication would be empowered to petition a magistrate to suppress the publishing company...
...Suppress Dyarchy, Evoke Federation. Despite their pretense that the crisis created by St. Gandhi did not exist, the Simon commissioners show both adaptability and energy of thought. They advise three major steps...