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When Detroit newsmen asked the police to issue new 1949 press cards-usually a routine procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
...outraged howls that rose from Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as "Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only to fires, but to waterworks and the like. There are methods of internal attack. In the event of a war with Russia, attacks internally will be followed by a beachhead in Detroit...
Most newsmen thought that distant hypothetical danger far less than the nearer hint of censorship in Headline Harry Toy's action. Snapped a Detroit Free Press reporter: "It's one of the most ridiculous attempts at censorship that I've ever seen a sawed-off local official pull...
...Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone, with the Negroes at one end and the government at the other. We've turned the handle and spoken into it, but there is no reply." Premier Malan's government made a characteristic reply. It took away the telephone...
...past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...