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...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
...Deception? The oft-stated reason for military secrecy is to withhold information that might benefit the enemy. Mel Maas thought he knew another reason, and it was the blackest charge in his book: "Possibly the motive for this policy of mishandling war facts is to keep from stirring up the people and Congress, in the fear that the people, through Congress, might force some reforms on the executive bureaus." In effect, Congressman Maas charged the military leaders with concealing the facts to cover their mistakes and the mistakes of their subordinates. How this is done, according to Congressman Maas...
...years I have considered myself a refugee from my native country, Japan, and have endeavored to win the Japanese people to the cause of humanity and freedom. For the sake of my relatives still in Japan, I must ask you to withhold my identity...
...since Pearl Harbor for press and public alike. Price's statement in January that the press "understands the need for temporary sacrifice" typifies a failure by government sources to realize that those who are the principal victims of miscarried news are the American public and not their press. To withhold from this public information which might "aid or comfort the enemy" is recognized as essential by every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale...
...person, blacklisted for some obscure and unrevealed reason, might be misquoted, misunderstood and persecuted. But knowing well the American spirit of fair play and justice, I am satisfied that all good Americans will withhold their judgment until I have been accorded a hearing and my side of the story is permitted to be revealed...