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Free College Education Considered Under Harry Truman
1948, Pathfinder Magazine, President Truman, Recent Articles

Free College?
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

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The concept of a free college education paid for by the Federal Government was not the brain child of the Vermont Marxist Bernie Sanders, but an idea that was briefly pursued by the education advisers of U.S. President Harry S Truman:


“Today the average American of 20 – 24 years of age has completed 12.1 years of schooling, an all-time high…Last week the President’s Commission on Higher Education issued a report aimed at pushing the average still higher. It urged that free public education be extended through the first two years of college.”


Even as early as 1894 socialism was recognized as wishful thinking.

First Election Planned for Post-Fascist Japan | Japanese Women Get the Vote 1945
1945, Philadelphia Record, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

First Election Planned for Post-Fascist Japan
(Philadelphia Record, 1945)

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“The Japanese Cabinet decided yesterday a general election will be held January 20 to 31 [1946], and the Tokyo newspaper Yomuri Hochi urged ‘spontaneous and vigorous action’ toward forming a democratic government.”

Wanting the Japanese Cabinet to know who was in charge, General MacArthur moved the date up to December seventeenth [1945]. It was the first time Japanese women had ever voted.

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Re-Armed Japan 1956 | 1956 Japanese Politics
1956, Collier's Magazine, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

VJ-Day + 11 Years
(Collier’s Magazine, 1956)

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“The new Japan is fermenting a mash of new ideas and old customs. It is mixing political democracy with feudal loyalties, free enterprise with giant monopolies, and several shades of Marxism with a hankering for the good old days. The nation that once meekly did what a handful of leaders told it to do is now outspokenly divided on every major issue… For seven Occupation years the Japanese had no choice of sides. We ran the country and fed them slabs of democracy sandwiched between $2,500,000,000 worth of relief and rehabilitation. Japan enjoyed our help and even digested a good deal of the democracy. But when the Occupation lid came off in 1952 it revealed a country weary of being told what to do, curious to taste the forbidden fruit behind the bamboo curtain and relishing its authority over the foreigners who had been giving it orders for so long.”

National Woman’s Party news article 1923 | The National Woman’s Party worked to secure suffrage for American women
1923, Recent Articles, Time Magazine, Womens Suffrage

Legal Equality with Men
(Time Magazine, 1923)

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Established in 1913, The National Woman’s Party worked tirelessly to secure the vote for American women – which was attained in 1920 with the Nineteenth Amendment. Flush with this victory, the organization pushed for an additional Constitutional amendment, one that would guarantee the equality of the sexes in the eyes of the law:


“Having received the assurance of Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican Whip, that he would present their amendment in the next Congress, a delegation of 200 women went to call on [President Coolidge].”

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King Charles as a Boy 1955 | King Charles III Early Life Biography
1955, Collier's Magazine, Elizabeth II Articles, Recent Articles

Her First Born
(Collier’s Magazine, 1955)

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This article served to introduce the boy who is now Charles III (b.1948) to American magazine readers and answer all their questions as to how impossibly glamorous his life was when he was only six years-old:


“Despite his scant years, Charles is already launched in his training for chairman of the board. In that training, the ancient and splendid trappings of British royal tradition still play a part, but in the main Charles is unmistakably a child of the mid-Twentieth Century.”

Berlin Low Morale Under Allied Bombing 1943 | Eyewitness Account of Berliners Misery and Shortages 1943
1943, German Home Front, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Misery in Berlin
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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Here is an eyewitness account of the bleak lives lead by Berliners during the summer of 1943:


“The food situation in Berlin is horrible. At the [Grand Hotel Esplanade] there was no choice on the menu. You either ate what was there or went hungry… There was no bread or butter served at the hotel… The people of Berlin were unfriendly and distant. Although I could not speak their language, I could sense their fear of bombing and disgust with the war. They seemed to be mechanical men, robots, just following daily routine.”


In 1941 Hitler ordered the home front to send as much warm clothing as they could spare to the army on the Russian front – you can read about it here

Guerrilla Fighter Info
1942, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

So, You Want to Be a Guerrilla?
(Coronet Magazine, 1942)

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This article was written during a time when guerrilla armies seemed to be popping up all over the globe, and, no doubt, many men and women must have been asking themselves, “What if it happens here? Could I fight?” And with that, out stepped Bert “Yank” Levy (1897 – 1965), a well-seasoned man of war who wrote a mass market paperback for the English speaking world: Guerrilla Warfare (Amazon). Attached are a few pages from his book.

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Guerrilla Fighter Info
1942, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

So, You Want to Be a Guerrilla?
(Coronet Magazine, 1942)

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This article was written during a time when guerrilla armies seemed to be popping up all over the globe, and, no doubt, many men and women must have been asking themselves, “What if it happens here? Could I fight?” And with that, out stepped Bert “Yank” Levy (1897 – 1965), a well-seasoned man of war who wrote a mass market paperback for the English speaking world: Guerrilla Warfare (Amazon). Attached are a few pages from his book.

Pro-Stalin Movie Mission to Moscow 1943
1943, Joseph Stalin, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Mission to Moscow
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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A few months after PM Daily was established, the editor announced that he had gone to great lengths to purge their ranks of Communists. However, as the attached movie review makes clear, they missed one. While the rest of the country was absolutely scandalized by the pro-Soviet Warner Brothers production, Mission to Moscow (1943), Peter Furst, the reviewer in question was absolutely delighted:


“The film reflects the undisguised admiration of [U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (1876 – 1958)] for Joseph Stalin and his government, as well as the Ambassador’s conviction that the famous Soviet ‘purge’ trials of 1936 – 38 were based on proof ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ that the former leaders punished were guilty of plotting with Germany and Japan for the overthrow of the Stalin regime.”

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Labor Secretary William B Wilson on 1915 Immigration Policy
1915, Harper's Weekly, Immigration History, Recent Articles

W.W. I and Immigration
(Harper’s Weekly, 1915)

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William B. Wilson (1862 – 1834) was the first to be appointed Secretary of Labor, and in this article he weighs the needs of Europe for fighting men and the needs of the United States for laborers. It is a very dry article and difficult to get through, but, happily, the most interesting factoids can be found in the opening paragraphs when he explains how many new immigrants chose to leave the United States in order to fight for their old countries in Europe.

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WW2 German Labor Shortage | Mussolini Allowed Nazis to Take Italian Slaves 1943
1943, Benito Mussolini, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Mussolini Betrayed Italian Labor
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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After Hitler drafted everyone who could possibly be drafted, he found that he now had a labor shortage. He reached out to his fellow Fascist, Mussolini, asking for additional workers – Italy complied and numerous volunteers went forth. These Italians returned two years later and told how they were consistently abused:


“They were treated by the master race like the millions of Russian, Polish, French, Yugoslav war prisoners who are forced to produce for the Nazi war machine. Far from home, cut off from their families, the Italian workers suffered hardships often as great as the workers from Nazi-occupied countries.”

Banned Literature Become Bestsellers |
1964, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, Twentieth Century Writers

Banned Book$
(Coronet Magazine, 1964)

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This is an article about the unintended consequences that ensue when the morality police ban books that, in their eye, will corrupt our youth and degrade society’s splendid ethical code. Time and again these books become bestsellers:


“In our own day, standards have changed so rapidly that books banned and burned only decades ago are now acceptable reading matter in our schools…[banned authors] are so respected that most college students are puzzled to learn of the trouble that greeted these books when originally published.”

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