Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser third of Sir Henry's command; like Persia, it is an occupied, but theoretically independent, nation under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
...contingent on Prime Minister King's tabling the report in the House. But the Prime Minister refused to table it, on the grounds that it would give aid & comfort to the enemy. Immediately the question arose of whether the Government ruling was valid or a blunt attempt to suppress legitimate criticism. With the Drew report before them, but with no go-ahead from the Government censors, the decision to print it or not was up to the editors. The Tribune's half-revelations were as close as any editor got to risking prosecution under the Civil Security Code...
...journalism. Fundamentally and at bottom the reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The bigger reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. They lead men by lies and fraud to desire and acquiesce in their own enslavement. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...
...flag, even though the salute violated their religious freedom. Last week three of the eight—Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas and Frank Murphy—sided with Stone, publicly acknowledged that they had "wrongly decided " the 1940 case, and declared that both it and last week's ruling suppress "the free exercise of a religion practiced by a minority...
...hits hard and clean. It gives me a new faith in our nation and the men who are fighting, and the men who, for religious reasons, are not fighting. . . . On the American front right now a deadly war is being waged between the forces of Fascism, who would suppress our civil liberties, and the forces of democracy and tolerance. All the jingoism and the stale hatemongering of our leaders since Pearl Harbor has sickened me; seldom have I heard a vital statement, a clear, enlightened pronouncement, recognizing that the rights of minorities are the very things we fight...