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Children under 6-Reassure them frequently that Hitler will not get them; avoid talking about war in their presence; keep them busy with pleasant things...
...Discuss the war freely, but avoid talking about destruction, brutality, suffering or war guilt; take their minds off war by playing family games, singing old songs, keeping home fires burning brightly...
Harvard College believes by the slimmest of slim majorities that the United States should not go to war in any case, but only one-sixth of the undergraduates are of the opinion that the country can avoid military involvement in Europe...
...text of the SDL petition, which was signed by most of the audience, read: "To avoid the costly mistakes of the democracies in the past when help came always too late and too little, we, the undersigned, most urgently request the United States Congress to pass as soon as possible the Lend-Lease Bill, as amended by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to insure Britain's defeat of Hitler...
...receive consideration eventually. One is the question of whether reducing the price of the Red Book for all Freshmen would not be at least as great a benefit as increasing scholarship aid for a given class. The other is a puzzler for this year's Smoker Committee-how to avoid the usual mob of upperclassmen which prevents the Smoker from being of, by, and for the Freshmen...