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...This time it was "a few newspapers and columnists and radio commentators." But he prepared thoughtful answers for several types of Administration critics. He took pains to reassure those who have feared that the U.S. is making, or might some day make "expedient" deals with Fascists. Said he: "The basic traditions and ideals of this Republic are being closely followed in U.S. foreign policy. "We shall not be able to claim that we have gained total victory in this war if any vestige of Fascism in any of its malignant forms is permitted to survive in the world...
...ordnance plants took on The Kelly's orders, and just 12 days after the deal was made, the first workers were laid off. Within two weeks, the layoffs will jump to 2,000, will crescendo until, in three weeks, the payroll will be slashed approximately 75%, leaving the basic staff needed to install tiremaking equipment, 1,200 men. On Oct. 1, The Kelly quits making ammunition, starts on tires...
Union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches has been in a palpitant state of slow motion for six years. Last July the Commission on Approaches to Unity produced the "Basic Principles" for union. Last Sunday New York's Bishop William T. Manning, in one fistlike sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, beat the Basic Principles, and probably all hope of church union, to a pulp. The Basic Principles, said Manning, would destroy the Episcopal faith, turn the Episcopal Church into a Presbyterian Church...
...pictures show the training of pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, and include views of college centers, classification centers, pre-flight schools, and elementary, basic, single engine, and advanced flying schools...
Roughly speaking, international police schemes come in three basic models...