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...most deplorable situation. But if ... there is the inference that the threat -almost the blackmailing threat-that we had to agree, in spite of what we thought was our own just interests, to every demand that was made upon us in order to continue that unity . . . the unity is valueless . . . Loyalty is a two-way thing ... It has to be practiced by both sides...
...drivers who did not have the new Massachusetts automobile inspection stickers. The penalty: a fat fine. Neither the policemen nor the courts which levied the fines seemed disturbed by the effectiveness of those stickers, but they should have been. For Massachusetts is stringently enforcing an inspection that is almost valueless...
Meanwhile other thinkers produced a variety of other life savers, among them a suit of aluminum pajamas, a lead foil brassiere to protect "mammary projections" and a lead girdle (which would be valueless unless it were six inches thick) to protect the spleen. All were gently but firmly discouraged. So was at least one man who was peddling perfectly valid information-the inner four pages of the CDA's 10? official survival book. He was reselling the pages for a dollar...
John Millett's "The Planning Process in Government" ("Dull, repetitive and valueless, yet it is required in at least three courses...
...rigid control, also found that the Soviet hold on youth is less ironclad than generally supposed, because Communism has lost its aura of rebellion, its "ideological élan." But opposition is locked in the separate minds of millions of individuals, and unless it is organized it is valueless. There is no sign that it is becoming organized. The modern world has several impressive examples of the ability of dictatorships to control their people even under the most extreme rigors of war. One example is that of Russia itself, which fought on in World War II even after the most valuable...