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...attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
...Nehru, who has written as revealingly of his own thoughts and beliefs as any man since Henry Adams, Gandhi is the great paradox-an arch reactionary,-yet the greatest revolutionary leader of his time. Invariably Nehru has swung to Gandhi's side, often in subsequent amazement that so mystical a character could, by instinct, sense the time for mass movements and the means to arouse public support...
Pageants were enormously popular. In Philadelphia Charles Willson Peale whipped up a magnificent triumphal Peace Arch in 1783, groaning with symbols. It was to be illuminated by skyrockets and 1,000 candles, but it caught fire. Undaunted, Peale invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked...
...realm of action this issue contains a clearly drawn article on the practicability of preinduction military training, by Howard P. Hudson of the University of Chicago's Institute of Military Studies. Pointing directly to the advantages of campus training, this article is a worthy companion piece for Arch McClure's "Your Role in the War," the most comprehensive directory of military opportunities for college students that has yet been made public. A well known labor reporter has contributed a well thought out analysis of the future of student entry into the newly recognized field of labor relations, whle Uma Bajpai...
...icebreaker Krassin smashed out a 6,000-mile Arctic sea route (Arch-angel-to-Seattle) between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This northern sea route is now open only three to five months of the year. But new freighters of 10,000 tons are being built and "super icebreakers" of 50,000 horsepower and 24,000 tons are projected...