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...Religious and intellectual freedom. ("Wars are not due only to economic causes. They have their origin also in false ideologies and in ignorance. ... It is therefore indispensable that there exist the opportunity to fuller knowledge of the facts. . . . Spiritual and intellectual regimentation that prevents this is a basic underlying cause...
Recent Berlin propaganda reveals that the two basic Nazi conceptions of Herrenvolk (the master race) and German Lebensraum (living space) have been shelved until further notice. The Nazis now pretend to have made the following concessions to Italy and other "allies" of the Axis...
...Cinch, Private Finch!" is unique in several aspects. Technically, its cartoons and brisk, colloquial style of description on the facing pages are refreshingly novel. Also, unlike Hargrove, it takes a typical draftee on the highlights of his basic career rather than the exceptional private during everyday...
...book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
Harvard then must accept the fact that preliminary outside work cannot be required, but must be assumed. Its Faculty must not penalize the interested with elementary and factual outlines aimed at the indifferent. Instructors must make it clear that they assume a knowledge of basic facts, to be presented by carefully selected reading, not merely high-school texts. Only then can they correlate and be understood; only then can they stimulate by interpretation. And the lecture system has no other justification for its existence...