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Every week, of course, the general sees a few important Americans and Japanese. When he holds forth to visitors, they are usually spellbound. Said C.I.O. Representative Willard Townsend: "I'm amazed. The man knows more about labor than I do. His ideas and convictions on labor are more progressive than mine." Said Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union: "The man's amazing. In all my years of civil liberties work, I have never found anybody with a greater understanding and a more sympathetic view toward the things we have been fighting for. Why, he even uses...
...fact-finding board appointed by the President last January was beyond any laborman's reproach. Its members were fair-minded men, experienced mediators: Dr. William Leiserson, visiting professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University; Professor William Willard Wirtz of Northwestern University Law School; Chief Justice George Edward Bushness of the Michigan supreme court. It was reasonable to expect that they would give all sides a fair hearing. They took 33 volumes of testimony. Then they recommended some rules changes and the same 15½? increase already accepted by the 19 other brotherhoods. Management accepted. The three brotherhoods defiantly...
Dean Bender, Payson S. Wild, Jr., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, S. Willard Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Edward S. Mason, Dean of the School of Public Administration, are among the signers of the letter. Student sponsors said last night that they hoped the meeting would see the birth of "an all-Harvard committee to save the European Recovery Program...
...Information Service's bulletins to China (framed by the State Department) sounded quite different. In its account of the China hearings, USIS gave a niggling 17 lines to Wedemeyer, a fat 68 to Willard Thorp and William Walton Butterworth Jr., State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China...
Protestant Minister Willard Johnson wrote: "The whole problem of relationship of religion to government remains to be settled. . . . This is certainly one part of the 'American Way' which is undergoing change. The historic attitudes of all religious groups, developed at a time when church and state were either united or struggling for dominance, cannot solve the problem. New concepts must be developed for modern conditions, and they should be set forth by all creeds together...