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Lines of Force. Probably no aspect of the war has been the subject of as much talk, gossip, punditry, newspaper footage and parlor statesmanship as "What Will Russia Do?" Actually, Russia's basic policy is not ambiguous or mysterious: it is merely alternative. Russia is in a position to choose: 1) full collaboration with the U.S. and Great Britain if they meet her demands; or 2) a lone-wolf course, excluding the U.S.'and Britain, but including an arrangement for and with a pro-Russian Germany. The problems are not simple. Among the many specific lines of force...
There was a father draft in those days, but no one realized then what a fine political football it would have made, especially since they got $21 just like the rest of us. I remember my basic training with a squad that contained seven fathers and me. During ten minute breaks I had to enthuse over baby pictures and listen to the latest report on what junior said. One daddy with four children kept going through the tough infantry course by imagining how pleasant it would be if he only had his kids along to help him--one to carry...
Beginning with the present Company E--Class 9-43--the basic communications course is being reduced to three months instead of the usual four-month-program now in effect...
...last month, which is devoted to specialization in five categories of communications for those men who are not detached at the end of the basic program, will be continued as heretofore. For the bulk of the men, therefore, Company E's program will run for a total of four months...
Human Impossibility. More basic than this personal controversy was the issue which CBS had apparently stumbled on unawares: although it is highly important that purveyors of news should not take sides, every intellectually honest newsman knows that impartiality (as distinct from nonpartisanship) is a human impossibility. If it could be achieved, far from being a feather in a newsman's cap, it would merely make him a man without principle and without perspective...