History repeats: dictators echo from Mussolini to Sukarno
The piece contrasts Mussolini and Hitler rising to power with Sukarno of Indonesia, who curbs his tirades by warning that the United States should apply economic isolation after Vietnam. It cautions great powers tolerate braggadocio briefly before consequences. Sukarno leans toward Maoist China in a Berlin-Rome style axis.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Pacific
United States
Southeast Asia
Sukarno
Indonesia
China
North Korea
North Vietnam
Duatag Mussolini
Albania
Ethinia
Malaysia
Mussolini
Hitler
Berlin-Rome
Mao Tse-tung
Peking-Jakarta
Vietnam
Maryland Wheat Critics Balk At New Farm Bill Plan
Maryland wheat growers resist a proposed wheat program that would raise the processing tax from 75 to 125 cents per bushel and shift funds from the Treasury. They argue Maryland soft red wheat serves baking needs and farms are diversified. the plan favors Western big farms and may harm local rotation systems. The debate continues as Democratic leaders reconsider tax funding methods.
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House of Representatives
Maryland
Secretary of Agriculture
West
Baltimore Sun
Diary of a Viet Cong Hamlet Tactics
Excerpts from a Viet Nam hamlet chief diary show day to day V C threats ambushes and intelligence work in government territory. The entries describe 150 homes in three clusters V C platoons and armed locals contending with ambushes leaflets infiltration and counter actions through July and August.
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V.C
V. C
Disembodied Voice to The Editor on Public Discourse
A reader writes about democratic quality in society and how face-to-face dialogue shapes moral strength. He laments anonymous whispers offering gossip about courts and educators, urging direct confrontation over evasive talk.
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Law of the Land
Faces Behind the Voice and the Voting Debate
Letters from Thornton M Pratt and Anthony J Lazarewicz criticize anonymous campaigns and literacy tests in voting law discourse. Pratt urges readers to demand accountability behind faceless voices while praising freedom of thought. Lazarewicz mocks literacy assertions in the new voting law and thanks Charles Mathias Jr for advancing the legislation.
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Big Daddy
Joseph R. Bibb
Dallas County Board of Registrars
New York State
Alabama
Richard Izor
Charles McMathias Jr
Fifty Years Ago News Briefs August 24 1915
A Creagerstown highway blockage prompts an injunction against Lauretta C Kinna and the Fogles to open a drain on the Kinna property. Peaches and luscious Mary land prices fall due to a bumper crop. Ossowetz fortress captured by German forces with 2,500,000 Austro German troops pushing Russian lines. Two loads of sugar corn totaling over 13 tons hauled by Lewis Roelkey through Frederick.
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Creagerstown
Lauretta
Ossowetz
Riga
Galcia
Frederick
Lewis Roelkey
Harmony Grove
Taneytown to host large parade and exercises
Twenty Years Ago items note a large scale victory parade in Taneytown on September 1 with bands, soldiers, fire companies, and a principal address by Brig. Gen. Malcom F. Lindsey at the school grounds. Also reported are heavy rains near inch and a half, the Story Book Parade closing with diplomas for fifty seven children, and Camp Detrick disposition undecided amid unsubstantiated private acquisition rumors per Congressman Beall.
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Taneytown
Malcom F. Lindsey
Indiantown Gap
C. Burr Artz
Camp Detrick
Washington
J. Glenn Beall
War Department
Kansas Attack on Fourteenth Amendment Raises Ratification Issue
Kansas Attorney General Robert Sonderholm files with the U S Supreme Court alleging fraud and improper methods in ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment. He argues the amendment was not validly ratified and notes the Court has treated ratification as a political question while applying its clauses. If the Court refuses to hear the case, the public may push for reapproval by two thirds of Congress and three fourths of states.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
High Court
William Seward
Congress
Secretary of State
Kansas
Union
Sonderholm
Andrew Johnson
Samuel Eliot Morison
Henry Steele Commager
Johnson
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Maryland Wheat View
Ray Cromley
Pacification Security Forces
Berry
Greece
United Nations
Thornton M. Pratt
McMurray St. Frederick
Yours Truly
Anthony J. Lazarewicz
Airy, Md
Toms
News-Post Files
Weather Bureau
Washington Today
David Lawrenes
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