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Limited or Unlimited? Having delivered a timely reminder that the first job is to deal firmly with our enemies, Editor Armstrong then outlined his own set of basic principles for the peace. Most important: the peace should be based on common agreements among many nations rather than any Big Power Alliance. Thus he put up a "stop, look & listen" sign across the path of the Lippmann bandwagon. Columnist Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Policy, Shield of the Republic (TIME, June 14), more than any other single statement, has popularized the idea of a longtime military alliance with Britain, the Soviet...
...critics of basic U.S.-British mili tary strategy, the President reiterated his long time conviction that this is not several wars...
...Chaplain Forgy goes he hears his famed phrase sung as a popular song. Chaplain Forgy says he would "be content never to hear it again." He is much more interested at present in the effect of battle on a man's religious faith. Says he: "I learned more basic religion in my first five minutes under fire than I did in my seven years in the seminary and in preaching...
...course, introduced at Chapel Hill, N.C., is a fitting addition to the tough training program of the Pre-Flight Schools. When cadets arrive at the University of North Carolina, they have already gone through a Naval Flight Preparatory School and a War Training Service School, where they got the basic academic courses and put in their first flying time in civilian planes. At Chapel Hill and the other Pre-Flight Schools,* academic courses continue, but the emphasis is on physical fitness. Sports stressed are those which feature bodily contact and competitive spirit; boxing, wrestling, football. Swimming is a must: every...
...relatively high temperature (250°F. and it is impervious to sun, water, acids and alkalis. Unlike other plastics, it can be processed on standard rubber-working machinery; unlike rubbers, it does not need to be vulcanized. It is also much easier to make than synthetic rubber; its basic ingredients are coal, air, salt and water...