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Many a U.S. citizen, shocked by the cost of conquering Iwo Jima, (see U.S. AT WAR) wondered last week if there might not have been a way to avoid it. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who has seen many a U.S. fighting man fall on Pacific isles, radioed: "We had to have this island, regardless of casualties. Jap strategy all along has been to send U.S. casualties soaring until the Americans sicken of the war and call it off. I do not believe any method of any man could have lessened the cost. I once wrote that there would be many...
Emil Ludwig, German-born biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) now living in Los Angeles, prophesied the postwar German attitude: "Germans again will try to avoid responsibility like a rich man's mistress when he has lost all his money. They will cry, pointing at Hitler: 'He seduced...
...Church will respect the autonomy of the State in the exercise of its functions and will abstain from intervention in the political field. But the State must avoid all forces, visible or occult, seeking to serve coalitions of individual interests...
...said FCC, Philco, Crosley, CBS, the Blue Network, the Cowles Broadcasting Co.-the move ought to be made to avoid sunspot interference predicted a few years hence...
...cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval, for which he applied last week...