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Amendment No. 7—-The unanimous votes of any three small nations in the General Assembly shall be sufficient to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Amendment No. 8—Ilf the machinery is duly set in motion as described under Amendment No. 7 and the United States and the Soviet Union still refuse to wage war against one another, then the Soviet Union shall be expelled from the General International Organization and the Presi- dent of the United States shall be impeach- ed, his successor to be named by any two small nations designated by the Republican National Committee. (Excerpt from list of Senator Van Bitfenbergs Amendments to Dumbarton Oaks,’ as drafted by Alan Max in the New York Worker. )

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“Wie have no confidence in the govern- ment. I can only describe it and its leader as a disaster looking for a place to hap- pen.”’ (A. A. Macleod, leader of the LPP group in the Ontario Legislature, in the debate on the Speech from the Throne.)

The Gripes

“Byery week or so I get a request from some general for a good marching song,” Loesser told us. “/ My men want a rousing

- mareh, he says, but I bet you twenty-five cents they don’t.. When a fellow’s been marching all day, he wants to come in and sing a marching song? When he’s been digging latrines all day, he wants John Philip Sousa? Mostly he just wants to gripe at his officers. “The major won the Croix de Guerre. The son of a was

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never there —ereatest lines ever written.’ (From article about Frank lLoesser, com- poser of “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”

New Yorker.)

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_E. B. Jolliffe is pulling long faces over the coming Ontario election. Come, come, Ted. You mrst accentuate the positive and elim-i-nate the negative or you ll become known as Mister In-Between. (From “Footprints and Fingerprints’ by Ed in The Canadian Tribune.)

None So Blind

We are not only vanquishing fascism

on the battlefield; we are vanquishing it in the moral duel between good and evil.

“Have the Russians also got gas vans?’ a German, a doctor by profession, asked me fearfully With a humble smile he explained, “We see now that you have everything .. .”

I gazed at him with contempt. How could I make it clear to this savage with a diploma that we have tanks and guns and aircraft, but that we also have something else which the modern Germans haven't got —— a conscience —— and that therefore we could fot possibly have such things as “murder vans.’ ‘(Ilya Ehrenburg)

ry World Figure—tTito

Here was no simple watrior, no primi- tive leader of fighting men; he might be that but he was more besides. Thinker, statesman, artist . . - He appeared to be all these and soldier as well; and there was a light in his face that glowed and flickered and subsided. as he talked but never went away—a light that comes only from long service in the tyranny of dreams.

_ His manner like his gaze was artlessly direct. This man would be a terrifying opponent. He would never be disconcerted or alarmed, seldom elated over his suc cesses: he would give no quarter and ask none. He would always be sure of himself, prepared to countenance his own extinc- tion but certain of the triumph of his ideas; uncompromising . : . (From the “book, “Guns for Tito,’ by Major Louis Huot.)

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went through the German land that the canned meat in American war prisoner camps js excellent and Germans who swore that they would rather kill themselves like Goebbels are raising their hands whole- sale by the thousands and tens of thousands. When they are taken prisoner they Swear they- always hated Hitler. So do German civilians in towns oc- eupied by us or our allies. They

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volt—for what could a civilian do against the Gestapo? But the Volkssturm were yester- day’s civilians and the Wolks- sturm have guns. And there are yery few Gestapo now, for most of them have run away. Why then don’t the Germans revolt? When people expected that some time some Germans would revolt, that there were some Germans with independ- ent “minds, this only showed that they didn’t know the Ger- mans. But they have learned to know them now and they despise the Germans. It is hard to say when the Germans were more yile and disgusting — when they burned down our villages or when they are whining as they do now. How wretched is their end, how

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without a murmur! One Ge man newspaper describes Gi many's death agony as folloy: “Nobody talks about the gi one si ject of people’s conversation how they placed their child or. whether they ought to ¢ houseroom to refugees.” F merly they used to discuss” Kuban and Egypt. Now supermen, hemmed in on sides, cluck like hens, “Whe Kaetchen? Where’s my fe: erbed? Where are my jewel No, you don’t hear Mue: say, “this is my house: yours!” 3 T know that after the = we shall have to under the education of these ant. poids, that we shall have raise them to the level at leas ‘backward human beings. 7 will be the task of politic; pedagogues, and psycholog I cannot and will not { about that. That is not my It isnt our job as soldiers. job is to beat Germany, to” her so that she will neve able to revert to the past ag Then we shall heal our

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