EDITORIAL

Last month Miss Sten Russell aimed hard and telling blows at the official and unofficial snoopers, crackpots and other neurotics whose aim these days is to whittle away important human rights, all in the name of the most pure and high-minded civic morality.

Her Editorial exposed the outward manifestions of this tendency in our own country. Now, an attempt will be made to uncover more universal aspects of this menace. It is one honoring no geographical limits or national boundaries for, lying behind every visible expression may be discovered the age-long battle to control men's minds through collective agencies of one sort or another.

At first glance the battle would appear to be one between the weak and the strong, a lust for power to subjugate men's minds and their bodies. Many pat and even learned books have been written around this thesis, but is it a sound one? Or, to put it differently, who are the strong and who the weak?

To answer this, let us examine a significant factor common to both modern Fascism and Communism, as well as the older authoritarian

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