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...problem of food at a college which has most students in residence is inevitably a stormy one. Even staid Harvard has lived through food riots, and occasional attacks of food poisoning, resulting in wide-spread student reaction. Yet, the violence of undergraduate feeling is tremendous. It is far greater than it would be if a food poisoning out-break were the sole cause. The average attitude of most men toward the Dining Hall offerings has always been somewhat hostile. So students, when presented with definite evidence of bungling, make the most of it with denunciations and action...
...movie, "The Iron Curtain," is now being shown in Boston and simultaneously in 400 other theaters across the country something of a record even for Hollywood in the wide-spread dissemination of propaganda. For the film is clearly just that. It is propaganda against a country with which we are now not at war. It is blatant war propaganda. It is the first step in the psychological softening...
Before an open meeting audience of 50, a majority of whom were overtly antagonistic to a re-election, the Council debated what it considered to be wide-spread administrative errors at the election of delegates...
...feel our efforts in gaining wide-spread support for this program will greatly further a constructive liberal approach to the present European problem...
Increasing police brutality, discrimination against Negroes even in the nation's capital city, racial segregation in the armed forces, the wartime treatment of West Coast Japanese-Americans, and wide-spread discriminatory practices in housing and education all give graphic support to Truman's statement that the need for a concrete program such as the committee offers "has never been greater than at this moment." Presidential recognition of the gravity of the situation is surely a hopeful sign. But even non-residents of Mr. Truman's home state will "want to be shown" Congressional and State civil liberties legislation, enforced...