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While the amphibious attack on Iwo Jima has stirred Japanese fears of Impending direct Invasion of the homeland itself is the blockade feature that most deeply concerns some enemy observers. They promptly noted that American penetration of the inner circle of Japanese Insular outposts In the Pacific gravely menaced all tea contact with China sea sources of vital war materials and with troops in all the southern sectors of Japan's shrivelling conquest sphere. It seems doubtful, however, that invasion of Japan can be in very close prospect in allied planning. Until the war In Europe ends so far as organized German resistance Is concerned It is unlikely that either the forces or the shipping for pushing on into Japan or into China to come to grips with the Japanese army can be available. War Close To Japan That does not mean, nevertheless, that Naval preparations for such a seaborne Invasions in both directions cannot be carried through In advance.

Seizure of Iwo Jima brings the war by air terribly close to Japan right now even though months might elapse before it could be followed by landings on the Japanese home islands themselves. By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Anaoclated Preaa War Aiialyil With seizure of pin-point Iwo Jima off the south coast of Japan underway- by American Naval forces, a beginning has been made on rolling history back almost a century. Just 92 years ago next July Comdr. Matthew C.

Perry began the negotiations for the treaty of "peace and amity" that opened Japan to the world. By the time that anniversary rolls around it is a fair conclusion that another American naval officer, Admiral Nimitz, will have sealed Japan in again, blockading her by sea. and air against any effective contact through the east and south China seas with the Chinese mainland. Iwo, Luzon Shelter Yanks That is the implication of the massive Naval power blow that exposed Iwo Jima to landing operations destined to make it a plane base for American use a meager 750 miles from Tokyo. It means that land-based medium bombers taking off from Iwo Jima'a air strips can range over all the ports of southern Japan and blast at sea communications of the enemy army In northern China as well as at Japanese war Industries.

It means, too, that Nimitz mighty fleet can carry its bold sweep into Japanese home waters farther west and north at will un The Battle For Iwo Jima It is highly doubtful If anybody who reads the newspapers or listens to the radio was much surprised at the Yank Invasion of Iwo Jima. After the carrier assault on the Japanese homeland, the little Island In the Volcanos was obviously to be the scene of the next major landing. The practice of prolonged air bombing of an island, followed by surface craft bombardment, has become practically a standard prelude to invasion in the Pacific. Preliminary air assaults often are widespread to deceive the enemy as to the Island chosen. But to date the heavy cannon of the fleet have not been wasted.

When the men-o'-war form their battle line" offshore and start pouring 15-inch shells into the beaches, It has always meant that the Yank infantry is going in. By that time, it Is too late for the enemy to do anything about it. The lesson was learned at Tarawa. In that case, the island was subjected to only four hours of artillery fire, and the Yanks went ashore to find an enemy still well-organized and full of fight. Now, the surface fleet works any fortified island over for at least two days before risking the lives of Casually considered, this might seem the most hazardous of all the Invasions undertaken to date.

Iwo is well fortified and firmly garrisoned. It lies much nearer other Japanese bases than the American outpost at Saipan. Overshadowing those considerations, however, is America's absolute supremacy at sea and vast superiority in the air. Under the circumstances, it actually is easier for Yanks to keep their lines open to Saipan 750 miles away, than for the Japs to get supplies and reinforcements from other islands in the Volcanos. Advantages of holding Iwo have been discussed here and elsewhere in the past; all are wrapped up in its nearness to Japan, the fact that its possession cuts practically in half the air miles from our base formerly nearest Tokyo.

The fight for Iwo promises to be bitter and bloody; the Japs don't surrender, and they have no way to retreat. But the Island is small a mere pinpoint in the Pacific and for that reason the battle fortunately also promises to be comparatively brief. Halsey's "Rainbow List'9 Gets New Hue For Japs Good Griel! Do We Have To Coax Vibration Makes Ernie's Nose Itch, Keeps Him Awake On Long Flight France And America By TOPE HALEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. (AP) Admiral William F.

Halsey Jr. today added a new one to the long list of pointed phrases and stories for which he is famous. Halsey's language, always colorful, attains the hue of a rainbow when he refers to the Japanese. Believes Chinese Theory He was askod at his news conference whether he had any message to send to the Japanese. He retorted: "Just tell them I still believe the Chinese theory of the origin of the Japanese race.

"There is a Chinese story that many years ago a beneficent ruler gathered together all Chinese criminals. The men were segregated from the women, and the men were exiled to the islands In the east. After their arrival the men killed all the male apes on the Island and the progency with the female apes became the Japanese race." Probably the admiral's most famous remark was made last Octo ber after a three-day sweep over Formosa. While Halsey maintained radio silence Jap propagandists were making fantastic claims about damage to the Third fleet. When the admiral finally broke radio silence, he ironically observed that his ships sunk by Japanese radio announcement, had been salvaged and were "retiring school after the war, and go on to college.

It's mighty tiresome sitting In the same seat on an airplane for nearly 24 hours, even when the seats are reclining ones, as ours were. The worst part Is trying to sleep. You doze for a while and then you squirming, because you can't stretch your legs out and your knees start to hurt. Consequently those who have traveled a lot by air try to find some place to lie down. The floor is good, but a stack of mall every stop, and about every three hours In the air.

They nearly fed us to death. The flight orderly is a sailor who does the same job as a steward on the airlines. We had two crews and two flight orderlies during our long trip, since the same crew stops off half way for a day's rest, and a new crew comes on. Both our flight orderlies were swell boys. There were 16 passengers of us 12 Navy and Army officers (one a Marine Corps general), three enlisted men and myself, the only civilian aboard.

The orderlies took good care of us, were friendly and willing, treated us all alike, and they weren't a bit scared of the high rank aboard. They wore plain blue Navy dungarees and blue shirts, and worked with their sleeves rolled up. Our first one was Seaman Howard Liner of Lubbock, He used to sell "Dr. Pepper" before he joined the Navy. Howard has made 36 of these trips across the Pacific, and enjoys it.

He gets back to San Francisco frequently, and on his next trip his wife is coming up from Lubbock to see him. Howard always has a little brown pencil stuck behind his ear. The other flight orderly was Seaman Don Jacobl of Shn Gabriel, Calif. He wore a plaited leather belt and hung from it was a big bunch of keys and a hunting knife in a scabbard. This was his seventh trip.

He seemed quite mature, yet I found he is only 18 and had quit high school to join the Navy. His one ambition is to finish Increasing evidence of strained relations between French and Americans, or more particularly between General De Gaulle and President Roosevelt, is causing understandable concern in the United States. Essentially, the basis for dissatisfaction now being displayed in Paris is the delay In ending the war. Everybody, including the Allied high command, had expected the European war to end last fall. Many plans, both military and political had been based on that expectation, which was blasted by the failure of the Arnhem airborne offensive.

It was not anticipated when the plans were laid that France still would be a battlefront. Now, Instead of working to rehabilitate the country, the Allies must devote all their energy there to making sure that supply lines are open. Since last fall, it has been necessary to improvise our policy toward the French. Unquestionably, many commitments made In the expectation of early victory have had to be postponed. (The same reason also applies to the fact that at least one full army is in the Pacific, instead of in Europe where it now could be put to good use.) There can be no question that the average Frenchman is, economically speaking, worse off today than he was under German occupation.

The German conquest caused relatively little physical damage, and the nation was operating frugally but smoothly under Nazi administration. By way of contrast, many French cities today are a shambles and the war on the border has prevented large-scale, rebuilding or repair. The black market flourishes, partly organized and supplied, we learned to our dismay, by American soldiers. The Germans bought France's products; we buy' virtually nothing. Seeing little Immediate hope for relief, the Frenchman is beginning to grumble.

Political freedom takes on the quality of a mirage for the man whose family is' hungry. Reports of General De Gaulle's "prima donna" attjtude that he "snubbed" President Roosevelt are but surface manifestations of France's condition plus a deep sense of humiliation that is not being UCSliaerArt Vtv A Hi art anlnn Maraarct Ann Ahlvrs: On Being Photographed In Dayton By BERT KLOPFER The Davton Real Estate board was formed Feb. 25, 1910, at a meeting In the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The meeting was called "for the purpose of effecting co-operative organization of all reliable Dayton real estate agents," according to tne minutes of that first meeting. E.

F. Rench was chosen president and John Q-Sherman, who later became head of the Standard Regis. ter company, was elected secretary. Participating In the meeting and enrolled as KLOPFEB ohm-tor members were the firms of Kimmel and freenaier, toner- man and Sherman, U. W.

uiaiamer and Son, the Interstate Business exchance. Bogan ana ueegniy, rinnsnn and Deem, ana frea now ard, George P. Huffman, E. T. Fox, V.

S. Couk, August wiiKin, Harlow E. Spring, Seymour B. Kelly, A. G.

Myers, T. A. MccaDe and Harry uuoer. Mr. Kelly moved, and the motion carried, that personal calls be made on all other eligible brokers to enlist their membership.

There is again shortage of space in the obstetrical wards of the local hospitals, doctors tell me Wish there was enclosed space at the city waterworks yard where tin cans are concentrated for shipment. Piled up in open space, large numbers of the cans become rusty and that's just what is not wanted Cigar leaf tobacco buyers and growers hereabouts continue to manifest dissatisfaction with conditions The Ohio State Spiritualist association, of which Rev. Laura E. J. Holloway of Dayton is president, is endeavoring to have the state law changed so as to exclude clairvoyants from the classification of fortune tellers.

The association has a legislative representative on the job in Columbus. All Things Considered By HOWARD V. O'BRIEN Comes a letter which begins: "I am unalterably opposed to war." Well, so am I. Furthermore, I am unalterably opposed to icy side walks, floods and the haemolytic streptococcus. But merely being opposed to these things does not dispose of them.

I doubt if we shall get far In our opposition to war until we know vastly more than we do now about the causes of war. For one thing, we shall have to admit that at its outset, war is fun. People go gaily into war. The tears come later. There Is a curious parallel to drunkenness.

The first drink is exhilarating. Self-control begins to go with the second and third. After that, the drunkard sinks rapidly into discomfort. He wishes he were not drunk; and resolves that once sober again, he will never touch another drop. Who is more virtuous than the reformed rake? Since the end-product of Intoxi cation Is pain, why do rational De ngs submit themselves to it? The only possible answer is that they seek escape from the pain of so briety.

The drunkard is a fugitive from reality. And so, perhaps, is tne warrior. Peace tends to become Intol erably dull. One day is like an other. There is no excitement People suffer from a kind of stagnation.

They are bored. Then, sud denly, the dry tinder of their apathy is Ignited by a martial spark. The drums begin to roll. aanas blare. Uniforms appear.

The skies redden with the promise of nign aaventure. There is war. ine tears come later. And a boredom far worse than that of peace. People want to stop the senseless slaughter.

But wars are easier started than stopped. They go on long after they have ceased to he run. When our soldiers at last come home, will they favor peacetime military service? I doubt it. I think they will want to scrap everything even remotely suggestive of war. They will ache with the hangover of reconstruction.

But this will not last. Gradually they will forget the anguish of their experiences; and will begin to look bark with a romantic nos-'algla on the brighter side of what thev went through. Talk to any gray-headed saffer who served in the First World War. You are likely to find that he looks back on his days overseas as the most brightly colored of his life. He would not repeat them heavens', no! But he Is glad he experienced them.

Happily, horror fades with time; and glamour replaces It. For years I.have watched this process in the case of a Civil War veteran who died the other day In his ninety-sixth year. As he aged, his thoughts turned more and more to his period of service as a soldier This was the period when he wns at his peak, mentally and phvs-Ically. The last time I saw him, 'he talked of nothing but the battle of Gettysburg. War is a tangled skein of motives and desires.

It is all shot through with mysterious threads, not the least of which, I suspect, Is lex. The springs of war He too deep to be fathomed by mere rhetoric. Of only one thing am I sure: War cannot, hparguerjnnyway, Dayton's Yesterdays V'rnm The Journal Files 25 Veara Ago Harding clubs were being formed throughout Montgomery county. The Druggists association adopted resolutions calling on the government not to permit the sale of whisky by drugstores but to have such sales made through government agencies. Henry J.

Stern of Dayton was eiectea a director or the National Men's Apparel club. A luncheon club here called La Junta was made up of Davton men who have traveled In foreign lands. Spanish was spoken at the weekly meetings. The Ideal Dairy Lunch featured a dinner of porterhouse iienk and French fried potatoes for 50 cents. Its advertisements stated that Day ton's population was 150,000 and that one-flfih ate In restaurants.

at high speed toward the Japanese fleet." When the Third fleet brought the war back to the Philippines last September with a series of devastating air sweeps over Luzon, Admiral Halsey was Immensely pleased. He dashed off a message of congratulations to the commander of his task carrier forces: "The gate receipts from the recent exceptional performance at Luzon were gratifying and although capacity audience (the Japanese) hissed, very little was thrown at the players. As long as the audience has a spot to hiss In, the performers will stay on the road." When the admiral once heard the Japanese radio asking "where is the American fleet?" he turned to his aid and- said "send them our latitude and longitude." The attitude of men who work with and under Halsey Is exemplified by the story of two bluejackets talking on deck as Halsey's Third fleet headed Into the China sea In mid-January. The China sea had been a Japanese lake for nearly three years. "I'm AU Set" "What do you think of going Into the China sea?" one bluejacket "Well," the other replied, "If the boss says we will go there I'm all set." Actually, we did neither one or the other; we merely looked mean and disagreeable.

That was the first time. The second time we felt better about the whole business until the photographer graciously turned down the lights. In that short space we thought suddenly of Mother who went eagerly to the fashionable Bradley studio to have a tintype made; we thought of Father, pictured with hand elegantly tucked In his vest and his head held In a tight metal device that seemed to say, "Smile, fellow, or else." We thought of that old red plush family album-end of all the misery that had gone Into the making of the pictures- that almost filled it. Immediately we lost the poise we'd been collecting all day? we saw our face strange and unfamiliar, fastened down on the last page of that old album; we saw a queer visage centered In our dally column and wondered how In the world that creature got In there. We were, in fact, scared by the awful truthfulness of any camera.

Once out on the street, however, we revived; took courage and began to chuckle over a comforting thought. No matter how often It's tried, the real spirit, the real "me" of this scribe never can be photographed; not only is It an Illusive, Invisible thing but It's often wandering off somewhere to a place it's not supposed to be at the moment. RAT sl0io ifl' I ARnBrE nap'aM itjafii re S.H.UIT SON Aiprkj It Is unfortunate that, as Marquis Childs reports, the United States is getting the lion's share of the blame. Perhaps, though, that Is but a natural result of having learned to expect too much from America. Reporters Should Break Censorship In, Reporting On Harmless News Thomas L.

Siohes Sana: Intolerance Is At Home, Not Among Servicemen Ernie Pyle IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS. (Delayed) After you take off from one of the island stops crossing the Pacific, your plane climbs noisily and laboriously for about half an hour, then it levels off into steady and less labored flight. Gradually the intense tropical heat of the ground fades away, and a chill comes over the cabin. Then the flight orderly turns on the heater and BUJU313 II, uii- ss til you are I. 111 iul lauic in your light clothes, even without a jacket.

It was after midnight when we took off from the little island of Kwajalein, PYLE in the Mar- shalls, and we were not to stop again until we reached the Marianas. Passengers are not allowed to smoke until the plane has stopped climbing and leveled off. Then the flight orderly stands at the head of the tabin and shouts in good Navy language, "The smoking lamp is lit," and then brings around paper cups for you to use as ash trays. About every three hours the flight orderly would wakus up to feed us. Good food, too, and served on trays just as on the regular airlines.

It got, to oe a joke among the passengers the way they poured food Into us. They fed us at PEGLER The simplest way to smash the secrecy which has been imposed on the American press in matters which do not Involve the safety of fighting forces or the President, Is to violate the censorship defiantly and chal-' lenge President Roosevelt to do his worst. The White House corre-s nts, being at a 1 a a n-tage and In a false, semi-social posi-tion will shrink from such conduct and may be pardoned for continuing to conceal from the people harmless PEGLEK news which is entrustea to which is them under the seal of confidence. But there is nothing to prevent Individuals from withdrawing from the circle formally with a warning that henceforth they will obey their own judgment. Such reporters would be barred from the Roosevelt press conferences, but that would be no loss either to the individual or to the public.

Any good reporter can pick up outside the press conferences and outside the intimacy of the White House as much information as he can get by maintaining his standing in the bund and feel free to use it according to his discretion. The majority, contlnulpg to adhere, subject to the restrictions, would be able to continue their routine re-countals of sifted and adulterated news and Roosevelt's stilted one-sided repartee, for what It is worth to the public If anything. White House news has, to a large extent, been made a commodity and perquisite sold through a racket. The regular reporters get the routine stuff but favored Individuals, notably Harry Hopkins, so long a guest ot the nation, are allowed to sell for their personal profit more Important bits which the whole press deserves by reason of Its position. To be sure, the newspapers and press associations are governed by ihe profit motive, But It is not news which they sell hut their unique and peculiar talents In learning news and their service In disseminating the same.

Their position has been recognized In the very custom of holding press conferences for, If Wife i 4 i I They saTd It had to be done. The old picture, which ve secretly thought held some 'quality of beloved youth, had reposed too long In the reference files (morgue) and must be discarded according to official order. Also, according to official order, a new photograph must be made and thereupon we experienced a number of emotions, chief of which was a most curious kind of fright. Obediently, however, we sat before a camera not once but several times and are convinced that being graphed Is faif worse man nav- junr lng a toothj I ground and filled 1 If-you go to ali dentist you don't care how you look; you'll have a towel tied around your neck and your hair will be mussed by somcuutiy mni; i t1U.laf?.WJi" MRS. AIILEUS uisiul leu anu you'll look a fright but neither you nor anybody else will care.

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They had mail piled In the rear four seats, so I got my blanket and started fixing myself up on the mail bags, An Army colonel ahead of me said, "I just tried that, but had to give it up. There are too many square boxes Inside the sacks and they stick into you." But I went ahead, and being smaller than the colonel, discovered I could sort of snake myself In between the hard places In the sacks. And that way I slept most of the journey to the Marianas. But one funny thing did happen that I'd never experienced, before in flying. The plane had quite a bit of vibration, and when my head touched the plane anywhere, the vibration would carry all through -my head.

That didn't bother me, but for some odd physiological reason, this vibration made the tip of my nose itch so badly I had to seratch it all the time. And thus I dozed the night away, really only half asleep because of the constant necessity for scratching my nose. of their readers and to the danger of the freedom of the press. For If this American press, enjoying this freedom, shall enter secret agreements to withhold news where there no justifi- cation for the secrecy, then it is defaulting a duty which that freedom imposes. If, the next time Roosevelt goes to Hyde Park, some reporter learning of this, subject to no confidential obligation, should file the story, allowing him time to arrive, that would be a helpful challenge to a system of censorship which has imposed on the press and its readers unreasonably.

I intend to do it myself. At Hyde Park he Is guardod by a royal household garrison and is no more exposed to danger than he is in the White House. Moreover, during the autumn campaign he not only rode through the streets eastern cities openly, seeking votes, but made tailboard orations to unse-lected crowds in Connecticut in his futile attempt to elect the candidate of the Communists for congress. It would be fair, also, to state the number of Pullman cars jsed in such travels strictly for the recreation of a public servant whose task is no more trying, for nil jur emotionnl propaganda, than the labors of many other, unofficial workers In the prosecution of tho war, some of whom actually have died of strain. The Impudence of this censorship and fraternal secrecy was flagrantly expressed in the episode of Elliott Roosevelt's dog.

It should not have taken more than an hour to go to the flies, produce the actual priority by which this beast was illegally freighted across the country to the degradation of the three servicemen and the delay of important military freight, Identify the officer who authorized it and start a courtmartial. Instead, by a conspiracy of confusion, evasion and concealment, this little act of office routine, took weeks. Now a plain violation of law and -military orders for which, In other circumstances, the guilty men would have been degraded It not ronned from the service, has been excused as "a sort of favor," In the end, all the guilty officers, Including generals of the American Army, have taken refuge behind the skirts of a woman, Anna Boettlgfr, Roosevelt's daughter. By normal standards this would be a ccnlemptlhle position but In an Army badly Infected with dirty politics It represents chivalry, G'AnNlE U7 AR ESljSfY their function were not' legitimate and a public service, the conferences would not be held. This being their position, they have a responsibility to the public not to accept unnecessary and unreasonable restraints and to withdraw from agreements which hamper them In the fulfillment of their legitimate obligations.

If, then, all Independent members of the conference were to decide, tomorrow, to boycott these meetings and rely on their own resourcefulness and discretion, always mindful of the requirement to check facts, Roosevelt would be more at loss than the press. For it is a fact that, far more flagrantly than Herbert Hoover, who was accused of loading his conferences with questions which he could answer for his own benefit, Roosevelt has conducted his classes as a propagandist by methods which rarely have permitted him to be shown at a disadvantage. He has his Ideological and political claque always on hand to feed him easy questions, to laugh at his pedagogical humor and to snap it off when the going gets rough. And on the few occasions when he has come out of these encounters wearing long, fuzzy ears he was the author of his own embarrassment, through the fault of his own patronizing overconfldenee. In the recent situation, when Hopkins and Ed Stettinius were Interviewed and photographed In Europe, Washington reporters, not members of the White House circle, would have been justified In writing that, these two were overseas and bound on another pilgrimage to Stalin.

Hopkins, certainly, Is not a national treasure deserving the precautions, which are conceded to the President for the sake of his personal safety. Stettinius, although he Is secretary of state, already had been placed In Europe by dispatches from overseas. Therefore no American reporter, knowing that they were abroad and why, and having obtained the Information without obligation, could have been blamed, much less punished, for telling the news In defiance of the censorship which has no legal support. The standard American press, as distinguished from our relatively few totalitarian papers, most of them published In New York, Is noted among the Journalism of the entire world for Its respect for confidence. This is at once a great virtue and a serious weakness, often Imposed upon by Roosevelt to the injury of not only the papers, themselves, but WASHINGTON, Feb.

moves on like a book of short stories in which the same characters reappear, except that in war the pace Is swifter, the events more dramatic, the tragedies so much more frequent and poignant. Here in this space, only a week ago, there was related the story of the American Legion post at Hood River, which has erased the names of 16 or Nisei as they are called, from its honor roll, and how National Com-mander Ed-w a N. heibcrllng i tervened with the post, STOKES in vain, to recall Its action. Now comes the story of one of the 16, Frank T. Hachiya, 25, of Portland, who died a hero's death after a dangerous mission for which he volunteered at Leyte.

It was one of those slinrp cameos of war. The regiment was in a difficult position. Information of the disposition of the enemy was needed. Hachiya volunteered to ead a patrol across a valley swept by Japanese fire. Ha got out ahead of the patrol.

A Jap sniper shot him through the stomach. He was able to make his way back up the hill. But the bullet had passed through his liver, Ha died on the operating table. What the American boys who served with him thought of him is shown by the fact tjiat nearly everybody in the regiment volunteered to give blood transfusions to try to save his lite. Will his name go back on the honor roll? i In this same pllee, too, only a week ago, was tbld the story of the Disabled American Veterans post at Hcrmlston, which had voted against admission of Japanese-American or Negro veterans to membership.

Now comes the copy of a letter which an American aviator, I Vs "A LJlfL a first lieutenant, has 'sent to that post, from which the following is quoted: "I read in the morning paper where you had recently voted 'never to allow a Japanese or a colored veteran' to become members of your post. "It Is impossible for me to convey to you the great dismay thnt seeing this caused me. "I have just returned from a tour of combat duty as a navigator on a B-24 with the Fifteenth air force and am fully aware of the great esteem in which the colored fighter pilots are held by the bomber boys they cover. Are they fighting for the continuance of discrimination against themselves? "Infantrymen returning on the same boat with me told me of the fine record established by the Japanese-American troops of the Fifth Army, These white men to hom I spoke had only great admiration for these 'Jnns' who had evidently carried far mote than their share of the battle. "Consider, gentlemen, what many such things as you are doing would mean." He referred then to other Incidents of discrimination against Japanese-Americans reported here a week ago.

"Read and reflect on this. Other references suggested are the Bible and the American Constitution. "Please do not consider this as a mischievous paper but rather a letter from a man genuinely concerned with what he considers to be an Un-American trend and one detrimental to the Interests of our country." Such tolersnce Is typical among servicemen who have fought side by side with Amor-leans of other races. Tolerant, too, are communications which have come from civilians In this country. They reflect the view that this country Is a haven for refugees from other lands, that It has always been so, and thnt oncethev hecome citizens, they are due the protection of our laws which are a guarantee of our democratic tradition.

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