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...result, the subject cannot be resolved into an academic controversy. It is our objective, in this case, to attempt to acquaint our readers with the basic elements of pure Scuttlebutt and allow you to draw your own conclusions...
...more friendly to the Axis than to the Allies. But, at most, the war is a side issue to the Latin Americans involved. Argentina's dominant Colonels, Bolivia's Majors and frustrated intellectuals personify a wave of military nationalism, Fascist in form but Latin American in its basic origins. For Latin Americans and for the U.S., the important fact is that the Argentine brand of nationalism is utterly hostile to the whole U.S. idea of hemisphere cooperation. If the Argentine influence spreads beyond Bolivia, Latin America will become a set of blocs of isolated, rigidly individual states...
Last week this question raised one of the biggest hubbubs in the U.S. Jewish press since the Reformed Jews broke with the Orthodox in the last century. Reason : Houston's Beth Israel Congregation by a 612-to-168 vote passed a startling statement entitled "Basic Principles of Reformed Judaism...
...Allies' announcement of this not-so-secret weapon was scarcely surprising. The basic principles of jet propulsion have been known for at least 30 years, and experiments of this type have been carried on by the major European powers...
...basic outergarment (field jacket and trousers) is windproof, waterproof, practically snagproof. If it holds up on test, it will be worn by U.S. soldiers everywhere except in the tropics...