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...tormented emotions, the naked coercion of the Liberty Loan drives of World War I, and it didn't like what it remembered. Houses of non-buyers, then, were painted yellow by vigilantes. Citizens were free to buy voluntarily-provided they bought. Said Historians Charles and Mary Beard: "Whoever refused to answer the call was liable to be blacklisted by his neighbors or associates and enrolled in the Doom Book in the Department of Justice." Henry Morgenthau was not for this kind of "voluntarism"-in a nation fighting for freedom, he still shied away from candid compulsion...
This means that whoever is chosen to succeed Leader will not have a clear hand at his job, and it was just this sort of trouble, outside pressure, either from the graduates or the Y. A. A., preventing a coach from doing what he wanted with his squad, which was supposed to have caused all the trouble with Yale's football coaches. Now it looks as though the crew squad might be headed for some of he same...
...yellow soldiers had come with guns, ships and planes to the Andamans. The change made very little difference to the Jarawa and the Onge on the coasts and in the jungle. They were too far gone in native malaria and imported syphilis. Whoever owned the Andamans, there would soon be no more of the little men and their little women to watch, with sick and saddened eyes, the comings & goings of the conquerors from the sick world beyond their islands...
...eastern ports (Madras and Calcutta) which are also inlets for China's supplies. On Ceylon is Trincomalee, Britain's secondary naval base, immensely important now that Singapore is gone. Trincomalee is now the Allies' only useful naval base north of Capetown and east of Suez. Whoever holds Trincomalee and Ceylon's airdromes holds the key to the Indian Ocean and all its vital sea routes between Africa, Australia, India and the Middle East. Without Trincomalee and Ceylon, the Japanese can make Allied transport in the Indian Ocean dangerous and expensive. With Ceylon, they could make...
Official reason for the War Secrets Bill was that it was aimed at spies, not at the press. Whoever it was aimed at, it was certain to hit the press. The need for such a bill was far from clear; present espionage laws have plenty of teeth...