The President and Politics
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with
Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs Test for the American Council on Education
(Copyright 1949 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet.
The test is given under the honor system -- no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. The President of the United States is:
1. Dewey. 3. Truman. 5. Wallace.
2. Hoover. 4. Vandenberg.
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3--standing for Truman-- has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
U. S. AFFAIRS
The President and Politics
1. Pundits and pollsters notwithstanding, Harry S. Truman was elected President with the following distribution of electoral votes:
1. Truman 402, Dewey 96,
Thurmond 22, Wallace 9
2. Truman 303, Dewey 189,
Thurmond 39, Wallace 0
3. Truman 368, Dewey 115,
Thurmond 27, Wallace 114
4. Truman 178, Dewey 166,
Thurmond 102, Wallace 85
5. Truman 501, Dewey 25, Thurmond 5, Wallace 0
2. His campaign featured a driving cross-country speaking routine in which he pounded away at all but one of these themes:
1. Farm prosperity would be threatened by a GOP victory.
2. The record of the Republican controlled 80th Congress was a bad one.
3. The GOP had consistently failed to uphold his bipartisan foreign policy.
4. A Republican victory would mean control of the nation by Wall Street and the National Association of Manufacturers.
5. GOP-initiated labor legislation must be repealed.
3. Govenor Dewey's campaign was marked by all but one of the foloowing:
1. Unruffled confidence.
2. Few specific statements of policy.
3. Promise of more expert piloting.
4. Refusal to fight on Truman's terms.
5. Threat to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy.
4. When the results were in, the most surprising source of Truman's strength was:
1. Foreign-born groups.
2. White collar workers.
3. Big business.
4. Socialists and Communists.
5. The farm vote.
5. When General Marshall resigned and the new Secretary of State was appointed, the President made a pointed declaration that U. S. foreign policy:
1. Would be completely overhauled.
2. Would be more isolationist until the rest of the world "settled down a bit."
3. Was moving toward an "Anglo-Saxon Alliance."
4. Would move in the direction of a softer policy toward Russia.
5. Would not change.
6. As he opened his second term, Truman's official family included only one holdover from the F.D.R. administration:
1. James Forrestal. 4. Julius Krug.
2. Charles Sawyer. 5. John Snyder
3. Tom Clark.
7. On the eve of his inauguration, Congress voted the President:
1. Best wishes on his 64th birthday.
2. A new presidential yacht.
3. A $25,000 salary boost and $50,000 tax free expense money.
4. A winter home in Key West.
5. Funds for the White House balcony he had built last spring.
8. In his inaugural address, the President pledged support of the U. N., continuance of the Marshall Plan, and offered a "bold new program" of:
1. "Containing" Russia by economic sanctions.
2. World government.
3. Assistance to China.
4. Exporting private U. S. capital and know-how to "underdeveloped areas."
5. Rebuilding Germany.
Congress
9. Organizing swiftly to expedite the President's program, the House adopted measures to curb the power of the:
1. Rules Committee.
2. Speaker.
3. Ways and Means Committee.
4. Sergeant at Arms.
5. Republican caucus.
10. Reporting to the new Congress, the President found the state of the union good; to make it better he recommended all but one of the following:
1. More TVAs.
2. Construction of 1,000,000 low-rent housing units.
3. Enactment of his civil-rights program.
4. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley act.
5. Abandonment of a universal military training program.
11. Harry Truman also asked Congress for a record peacetime budget of $41.9 billion, half of which would go for:
1. Strengthening the domestic economy.
2. Foreign aid and national defense.
3. Pensions and social security.
4. His new health program.
5. Flood control and reclaiming of eroded land.
12. Chosen to succeed Wallace H. White Jr. as Senate majority leader:
1. Robert F. Wagner of New York.
2. Scott Lucas of Illinois.
3. Sheridan Downey of California.
4. Edward Thye of Minnesota.
5. Millard Tydings of Maryland.
13. The Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss spy investigation was heightened by all but one of these:
1. Conflict between the Un-American Activities Committee and the Justice Department.
2. Withdrawal of President Truman's charges that the investigation was a red herring.
3. Indictment of Hiss on charges of perjury.
4. Resignation of Chambers as a senior editor of Time.
5. Removal of secret government papers from a pumpkin on Chambers' farm.
14. Ex-President Hoover presented a report of his non-partisan Commission recommending Congressional action to:
1. Reorganize the executive department of the federal government.
2. End all racial and religious discrimination in the U. S.
3. Set up four more huge projects like TVA.
4. Merge the armed forces into a single administration unit.
5. Rewrite the federal constitution.
Business and Finance
15. Reaction of the stock market to the Presidential election was:
1. A wave of buying which shot prices up two points on the Dow-Jones averages.
2. Steady buying and selling, with no noticeable effects.
3. A slight drop in prices which was recovered within 24 hours.
4. A sharp spur which brought averages to a high for the year.
5. The worst break in prices since the spring of 1940.
16. Turning in the biggest profits of any single U. S. company in 1948 (an estimated $450 million) was:
1. Ford Motor Company. 4. J. P. Morgan
2. General Motors.
3. General Electric. 5. Electric Bond & Share.
17. The most important economic news as 1949 opened was the fact that:
1. Unemployment was decreasing.
2. U. S. exports were at an all-time high.
3. The rate of business failures was 500% above the 1939 rate.
4. Prices and the cost of living index were going down.
5. Individual savings deposits were only 50% of their 1943 high.
18. On the heels of this news came a threat to the nation's meat supply as a result of:
1. The West's worst blizzards in half a century.
2. An outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
3. A "strike" by western cattlemen to keep their beef from market.
4. Paralyzing strikes in the packing industry.
5. Severe drought in the Southwest which made deserts of range country.
19. General Motors' automobile show at the Waldorf-Astoria was recognition of:
1. Competition from foreign markets.
2. The approaching buyers' market for all cars.
3. The fact it had lost its place as the world's biggest auto maker.
4. A coming depression.
5. The fact that expensive cars will no longer sell.
Labor
20. In an aura of warmth and amiability, West Coast shipping operators came to an agreement with the man they had sworn not to do business with:
1. Phil Murray. 4. Cyrus S. Ching.
2. Dave Beck. 5. Joe Ryan.
3. Harry Bridges.
21. Doing what one group of his followers has been demanding for some time, Phil Murray at the 10th annual C.I.O. Convention in Portland, Ore. in November:
1. Urged that they unite with the A.F.L.
2. Suggested that he be appointed Secretary of Labor.
3. Urged public ownership of all large corporations.
4. Sent the Communists scampering for cover.
5. Retracted his endorsement of the Marshall Plan.
22. According to a U. S. Supreme Court ruling a company whose workers are covered by a union contract must, on demand, consult the union before:
1. Employing new men.
2. Voting extra dividends on stock.
3. Firing a single employee.
4. Fixing the price of its products.
5. Giving merit raises.
23. More than 300,000 auto workers at General Motors:
1. Were laid off in January.
2. Faced a wage cut because their pay is geared to the cost of living.
3. Quit the United Automobile Workers union.
4. Struck in January.
5. Benefited from a 25-cent-an-hour wage raise.
Here & There
24. In Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley at Donora, 19 persons died within 36 hours, believed to be the victims of:
1. An outbreak of bubonic plague.
2. Food poisoning traced to spoiled potatoes.
3. A poisonous smog.
4. Gamma rays.
5. A new type of flu virus. 5.
25. Operation Crow was organized as a special U. S. airlift to:
1. Aid Berlin.
2. Aid China.
3. Rescue nine men from the Greenland icecap.
4. Bring wives or fiancees of G. I.'s to the U. S.
5. Take U. S. dollars to Europe.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN NEWS
Crisis in Germany
26. Casting gloom over world peace prospects at year's end was the crisis caused by the tight blockade Russia slapped on Berlin after the three Western powers:
1. Refused to agree to a coalition government for the city.
2. Barred Communists from holding meetings in the Western sectors.
3. Stopped further dismantling of industrial plants for reparations.
4. Announced their new currency for Berlin.
5. Announced merger of their sectors into a single unit.
27. The principal weapon, in both a material and psychological sense, possessed by the West in this protracted struggle was the:
1. Air lift.
2. Passive resistance of Germans in the Soviet sector.
3. Counter-blockade of Eastern Berlin.
4. Refusal to permit Russians to enter the Western sectors.
5. Shutting off of coal supplies to Eastern Germany.
28. Meanwhile, the currency reform in Western Germany had:
1. Caused increased shortage of consumer goods.
2. Stimulated the area's economic recovery.
3. Doubled black market activity.
4. Brought on a serious strike by farmers who refused to sell their produce.
5. Failed noticeably to change the economic picture.
29. Boycotted by the Communist Party, the Berlin elections brought out 86% of the eligible voters, gave a thumping majority to the:
1. Catholic Action Party. 4. Peasant Party.
2. Monarchists.
3. Neo-Fascists. 5. Socialists.
30. Meanwhile, the Russians took another step toward splitting the city in two by setting up a "people's government" under the renegade son of a hero of the German Republic:
1. Lugwig Bismark 4. Fritz Ebert
2. Richard von Papen 5. Johannes Bruning.
3. Wilhelm Pieck.
Palestine Problem
31. Trying to bring peace to another trouble spot, U.N. mediator for Palestine Count Bernadotte was assassinated in September by:
1. Jewish extremists. 4. Egyptians.
2. British agents. 5. Armenians.
3. Arabs hired by the Grand Mufti.
32. After her forces pushed 50 miles into Egypt, Israel withdrew to the Egyptian frontier, but refused to give up the desert area known as:
1. The Dead Sea Valley.
2. The Negeb.
3. Transjordan.
4. Galilee.
5. Musa Dagh.
33. And British-Israeli relations worsened when:
1. Britain slapped an embargo on all shipments to Palestine.
2. Transjordan troops under the British officer, Glubb Pasha, drove through Palestine to the Mediterranean.
3. Five British reconnaissance planes were shot down over the Egyptian border by Jewish forces.
4. Israeli flyers photographed Suez Canal defenses.
5. Israel asked that the British Consulate in Tel Aviv be closed.
34. Bernadotte's successor, Ralph Bunche, succeeded in assembling Israeli and Egyptians for an armistice conference at:
1. Rhodes. 4. Tel Aviv
2. Paris. 5. Cairo.
3. London.
The United Nations
35. When the U. N. Assembly voted approval of the U. S.-backed atomic control plan 40 to 6, Russia:
1. Bowed to the inevitable and accepted it.
2. Led the fight to push the plan through.
3. Insisted on retaining her veto of any control methods.
4. Said she would promptly stop all atomic research in progress.
5. Declared the step "history's noblest moment."
36. Among achievements of the U. N. Assembly at its latest session were the:
1. Declaration of Human Rights and Genocide Convention.
2. Settlement of the Yugoslav-Albanian conflict.
3. Settlement of the Dutch-Indonesian conflict.
4. Adoption of the "Four Freedoms" as "basic law."
5. Mediation of the Iran-Russian dispute.
37. Despite Soviet opposition, the U. N. Assembly action on Korea:
1. Recognized the government of Southern Korea.
2. Recognized the government of Northern Korea.
3. Awarded Northern Korea to China.
4. Awarded Korea to Japan.
5. Branded Soviet actions there as a threat to world peace.
The British Commonwealth
38. Despite determined Tory opposition, Britain's Labor government pushed ahead its plan to nationalize 107 companies accounting for over 90% of the:
1. Food industry. 4. Shipping industry.
2. Agricultural economy.
3. Petroleum industry. 5. Steel industry.
39. But the Attlee government had its narrowest majority ever on a House of Commons vote in January on Secretary Bevin's:
1. Handling of the Ruhr problem.
2. Palestine policy.
3. Entente with France.
4. Sabotage of the U. S. of Europe plan.
5. Handling of the race riots in South Africa.
40. In November Canada's 20-year Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King resigned and was succeeded by:
1. Camillien Houde. 4. Sir Wilfred Laurier.
2. Louis St. Laurent.
3. Georges Montel. 5. George Drew.
41. Moving to implement a Western European alliance, Britain, Belgium, France, Luxemburg and The Netherlands:
1. Established a common currency.
2. Removed all tariff barriers against each other.
3. Elected representatives to a common Parliament.
4. Named Field Marshal Montgomery their permanent military chairman.
5. Standardized all their uniforms.
42. Norway did all but one of these in regard to the proposed North Atlantic Alliance:
1. Voiced a final "No" to the suggested Scandinavian neutrality bloc.
2. Told Russia placidly that she would study conditions for joining the Atlantic Pact.
3. Warned critics at home that Norway alone is not strong enough to fight off an attack by a great power.
4. Sent Foreign Minister Halvard Lange to the U. S. to discuss details with U. S. Secretary of State Acheson.
5. Admitted willingness to grant bases to the power who offered her the greatest protection.
43. Eighteen months after the U. S. began aiding the Greek Government's war against the Communist guerrilla forces:
1. President Truman declared the Truman Doctrine a complete success.
2. All but a handful of guerrillas had been rounded up.
3. The guerrilla leader sued for peace.
4. There were more guerrillas than ever.
5. The Greek Government offered the Communists seats in a coalition government.
44. As 1949 opened, the speeches of Communists Cachin in France and Togliatti in Italy followed a new pattern which:
1. Revealed that Russia was nearly broke.
2. Indicated that Russia was abandoning the Greek guerrillas.
3. Stressed the "peace is possible" theme between East and West.
4. Seemed to indicate growing criticism by European Reds of Kremlin directives.
5. Reflected the same undeviating anti-U. S. line.
The Far East
45. Before he finally announced his retirement, Chiang Kai-shek tried to stave off disaster in the war with the Reds by doing all but one of these:
1. Asked that General MacArthur come to China to lead his forces.
2. Introduced a new gold yuan in an effort to stop inflation.
3. Called Sun Fo, son of famed Sun Yat-sen to the premiership.
4. Empowered his own son to use strong measures against Shanghai profiteers.
5. Flew to Washington himself to plead for aid.
46. The job of trying to make peace with the Communists fell to Acting President:
1. Mac Tse-tung. 4. H. H. Kung.
2. Chang Chun. 5. Li Tsung-jen.
3. T. V. Soong.
47. But by January's end Red forces had done all but one of these:
1. Achieved the surrender of Peiping.
2. Pushed to the north shore of the Yangtze River.
3. Caused the Nationalist government to move from Nanking to Canton.
4. Taken over Tientsin.
5. Carried through swiftly a process of complete sovietization in the areas they conquered.
48. Communist peace terms in China --in effect unconditional surrender --included all but one of the following:
1. Punishment of "war criminals," including Chiang.
2. Abrogation of "traitorous" treaties, such as the one granting the U. S. right to base naval forces at Tsingtao.
3. Reorganization of Chinese armies.
4. No further aid from U. S.
5. Convocation of a Political Consultative Conference to take over power from the Kuomintang.
49. In the Japanese elections victory went to the:
1. Communist Party.
2. Socialist Party.
3. Democratic Liberal Party.
4. Reactionary Shogun Party.
5. Pro-Russian, anti-American Black Dragon Party.
50. In a move calculated to embarrass the U. S. in Korea, the Russians announced at year's end:
1. Incorporation of North Korea into the Soviet Union.
2. Withdrawal of their troops from North Korea.
3. "Free elections" to be held in North Korea during March.
4. Cession of a strip of Manchurian territory to North Korea.
5. Willingness to cooperate in all-Korean elections this spring.
51. December brought this action in the Dutch-Republic of Indonesia dispute:
1. Indonesia declared war.
2. The Dutch invaded the Republic, arrested the President.
3. Settlement was reached.
4. A frontier was drawn cutting Java in two.
5. Communists took over the Indonesian government in a bloodless coup.
Latin America
52. When foreign troops attacked Costa Rica a week after the Army had been dissolved, Costa Rica called on the Organization of American States, and said the invaders were trained by:
1. The U. S. 4. Panama.
2. Nicaragua's army. 5. British agents.
3. Cuba.
53. In Chile, the Government had moved fast to crush an abortive army conspiracy which was blamed on:
1. Russia. 4. Argentine meddling.
2. The U. S. 5. Interference by Brazil.
3. The U. N.
54. Argentina's Evita Peron made the most of a good chance when she:
1. Flew to Washington for the President's inaugural.
2. Invited Mrs. Truman and Margaret to visit her.
3. Accepted an appointment as delegate to the U. N. General Assembly.
4. Sent enough clothes for 600 poor U. S. children to Washington.
5. Sent 6,000 roses to President Truman for the inaugural.
Here & There
55. The 1948 Nobel Peace Prize:
1. Went to Count Bernadotte (posthumously).
2. Was not awarded because the Committee found nobody worthy of it.
3. Was awarded to President Truman.
4. Went to Argentina's Juan Bramuglia.
5. Was awarded to Winston Churchill.
56. Rulers of these two nations divorced their wives when the latter produced no male heirs:
1. Transjordan and Ethiopia.
2. Rumania and Hungary.
3. Sweden and Denmark.
4. Egypt and Persia.
5. Pakistan and Burma.
57. The English-speaking world, in particular, welcomed, with a wave of sentiment, the announcement that a prince had been born in:
1. Greece.
2. Great Britain.
3. Holland.
4. South Africa.
5. Sweden.
58. The country hardest hit in the worst flu epidemic since the one following World War I was:
1. Norway 4. Spain.
2. France. 5. Switzerland.
3. Russia.
59. Here a first experiment in democratic government succumbed to a coup by Army officers. 60. Terminus of history's greatest peacetime airlift. 61. Communist, all right, but now at odds with Moscow.
62. Puppet Pauker's province.
63. Labor leader Dave Beck's bailiwick.
64. Elected its own governor for the first time, 455 years after Columbus discovered it.
OTHER EVENTS
Science and Medicine
69. Werner Wolff's Island of Death tackled but did not solve the mystery of the huge stone heads that stare out at the Pacific from:
1. Pitcairn Island. 4. Oahu Island.
2. Easter Island. 5. Guam.
3. Manila.
70. "Ultrafax" is a gadget for:
1. Transmitting about 200,000 words through the air in a minute.
2. Playing long records.
3. Telephoning to an automobile.
4. Increasing automobile speeds.
5. Extending television's radius to 150 miles.
71. A new synthetic drug called Antrycide is said to be of great significance to Africa because it:
1. Prevents yellow fever and malaria.
2. Protects cattle from a deadly disease carried by the tsetse fly.
3. Makes ice in seconds in the hottest jungles.
4. Cures elephantiasis.
5. Eliminates athlete's foot.
72. Electrical Engineer Hugh Auchincloss Brown advanced the startling theory that because of the ice accumulating in the Antartic:
1. A world-wide air conditioning system was economically feasible.
2. The whole globe would be ice capped by 1980.
3. The earth was in danger of upsetting.
4. This winter will be the severest ever.
5. Next summer would be the coldest ever.
73. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing came out with his national health program which recommended:
1. Putting all doctors on the government payroll.
2. Establishing compulsory government health insurance.
3. Admitting 10,000 doctors from among Europe's DPs.
4. Raising standards of teaching in the medical profession.
5. Complete socialization of medicine.
74. The new treatment doctors are finding effective for the common cold and other respiratory afflictions involves the use of a dust made of:
1. Quartz.
2. Evaporated milk.
3. Sulphur and brimstone.
4. Dried apples.
5. Penicillin.
75. Creeping more and more into scientific aviation terminology is "Mach 1," which means:
1. Perfect machine efficiency. 4. Automatic stabilizer.
2. The speed of sound. 5. Rocket power.
3. Pilot training.
76. Stomach ulcer sufferers viewed with interest the news that a Stanford University professor was effecting cures with:
1. Branch water. 4. Cabbage juice.
2. A straight meat diet. 5. Hot whiskey toddies.
3. Religious instruction.
77. Secretary Forrestal made a guarded reference in his report on unification of the Services to:
1. New round-the-world submarines.
2. Space ships for interplanetary travel.
3. An earth satellite vehicle program.
4. The 5,000 ex-Nazis working on scientific problems for the War Department.
5. Existence of vast underground munitions factories.
78. Managed by an avowed Communist, the first known atomic pile outside the Anglo-Saxon world was announced in:
1. Norway.
2. Italy.
3. Spain.
4. Belgium.
5. France.
Arts & Entertainment
79. By January's end a major revolution in radio came about with the announcement that Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and Red Skelton were:
1. Retiring.
2. Abandoning radio for television.
3. Switching to CBS.
4. Joining in a single hour-long program.
5. Striking for " cost-of-living" bonuses.
80. Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham placed an important long-lost cache of papers on display for the first time, including part of the manuscript of:
1. Boswell's Life of Johnson.
2. Johnson's Life of Boswell.
3. Abraham Lincoln's boyhood.
4. Pepys' Diary.
5. Benjamin Franklin's Parisian experiences.
81. Hailed by many as the best non-fiction book to date on World War II by an American is Playwright Robert Sherwood's:
1. Behind the Iron Curtain. 4. The Roosevelt Myth.
2. Roosevelt and Hopkins. 5. White House Recaptured.
3. Autobiography.
82. Olivia de Havilland has the most important role of her career in:
1. Joan of Arc. 4. Red River.
2. June Bride. 5. Key Largo.
3. The Snake Pit.
83. The nation's No. 1 military historian, Douglas Southall Freeman, published the first two volumes of his biography of: 1. Abraham Lincoln. 4. Thomas Jefferson.
2. Dwight Eisenhower.
3. George Washington. 5. Andrew Jackson.
84. In this, his eleventh novel, the author of The Robe reveals all the characteristics of his previous works that have made him one of the most popular of living novelists:
1. W. Somerset Maugham--Catalina.
2. A. A. Milne--Birthday Party.
3. Stark Young--Immortal Shadows.
4. David Bradley--No Place to Hide.
5. Lloyd C. Douglas--The Big Fisherman.
85. Newest of Cole Porter's glittering list of hit musicals is the current Broadway sellout:
1. Private Lives. 4. Kiss Me, Kate.
2. Inside U.S.A. 5. All for Love.
3. Lend An Ear.
86. During the winter two world-famed musicians, Wilhelm Furtwaengler and Walter Gieseking:
1. Were forced to cancel American appearances because of their Nazi pasts.
2. Won loud U. S. acclaim in their first appearances since before the war.
3. Appeared a t White House performances.
4. Renounce their U. S. citizenship to go to Russia.
5. Won Nobel prizes--the first to be awarded to musicians.
Sport
87. A bone of contention among football coaches was the rule permitting:
1. Passing on fourth down.
2. Hidden ball plays.
3. Unlimited time-outs.
4. Unlimited substitutions.
5. Small salaries to be paid players.
88. Winner of this year's Rose Bowl contest by a score of 20 to 14 was:
1. Michigan. 4. Stanford.
2. California. 5. Northwestern.
3. Minnesota.
89. Sparked by their 6 ft. 8 in. All-America, "Easy Ed" Macauley, one of the leading college basket ball teams of the year was:
1. St. Louis University.
2. Long Island University.
3. Fordham University.
4. Indiana University.
5. The University of Kentucky.
Religion
90. The Federal Council of Churches in its "Statement on Human Rights" went on record as opposing:
1. Jim Crow in any form.
2. Ministers who use the pulpit for political speeches.
3. The Draft in time of peace.
4. Radio appeals to increase church attendance.
5. The continued manufacture of atomic bombs.
Education
91. The U. S. Office of Education reported enrollment in U. S. colleges hit an alltime high in 1948 of:
1. 250,000. 4. 2,500,000.
2. 500,000. 5. 5,000,000.
3. 1,000,000.
92. To raise the level of conversation at Rutgers University, Philosopher Houston Peterson made a provocative suggestion:
1. Each student should read one good book a year--the same good book.
2. Each student should take a course in political science.
3. Each student should take a course in philosophy.
4. Each student should join the debating society.
5. A Dale Carnegie Public Speaking course should be required.
Press
93. A Czech newsmen's congress was told that to make the Czechoslovakian press "perfect," all but one of these would be necessary:
1. The professional journalist must disappear.
2. Most sport news will have to be dropped.
3. Big display ads must go.
4. Editorial boards to recheck each word must be expanded.
5. The names of Benes and Masaryk must never be mentioned.
94. In December, Robert B. Jung, a Berlin-born Czech who is a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground, started a new publication in Manhattan which will specialize in:
1. Analyzing the political situation in Germany.
2. Explaining how the anti-Hitler underground operated.
3. Giving a step-by-step account of progress on Western Union.
4. Getting the inside dope on how close we are to war.
5. Presenting only the good side of the news.
95. Newsmen sensed a new threat to the Fourth Estate when Detroit's police commissioner said that press cards would be issued only to those who:
1. Were Democrats.
2. Submitted all copy to the Police Department.
3. Agreed to buy tickets to the Patrolmen's Ball.
4. Swore they were not Communists.
5. Passed a literacy test.
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