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...making such decisions his background in world affairs is important. For today the U.S. Secretary of War has to be in part an international statesman or he cannot do his job. His Army trains at home in peace, but under the job that was handed him when the Lend-Lease Act was passed he is fighting a war on the battlefields of Europe...
...camp's newspaper was named Traveller, after Lee's horse. These progressive tributes to the Confederacy's first soldier were all right with the War Department, but when the camp's quartermaster corps submitted its proposed insignia last week the Department turned it down cold. Background of the rejected insignia were the Stars and Bars of the Confederate flag...
...agents regarded it as the world's softest touch. Within another year (estimates vary), the Hemisphere may be immunized against the Nazi infection. For this, Welles should get the major credit, but it is much more likely that he will merely appear, smiling wryly, in the background some day, while the President and others hang medals on one another for saving the Hemisphere...
...When the American moving-picture industry makes good films with an Argentine background, with Argentine themes and actors, it will have truly shown its real love for Argentina . . . but it will have shaken the Argentine moving-picture industry...
...idea of a baseball announcer turning up with the Philharmonic was not at all incongruous. He is convinced it takes culture to handle a play-by-play account of a ball game and he earnestly delves into such works as The Rise of American Civilization to give himself background for his job. Clinical in his attitude toward sport, he has charted the records of each big-league player, has memorized most of the data of the Spalding Guide Book all the way back...