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...first act on receiving his new power Paul McNutt conferred with the joint Chiefs of Staff to determine the basic military needs for 1943. As boss of all manpower, Paul McNutt well knew that military needs come first. But with an eye on the manpower pool for war production, he also needed justification from the Army and Navy of their needs...
...nonetheless criticized for draining the wealth of the prairies into industrial Ontario. He has espoused closer cooperation with the U.S. and industrialization of Canada's West. Shortly before World War II he bartered prairie wheat for Munich beer. His policy handsprings have been epic but grounded in three basic beliefs: 1) social security for all; 2) the need to remove world trade barriers; 3) the right of all to live in a world of "peace and plenty...
This terrorization of teachers in some New York City schools is no sudden war time phenomenon. The basic trouble, says Director Caroline Zachry of New York City's Bureau of Child Guidance, is not in the schools but in the children's insecure homes. Many children no longer have any respect for either their parents' authority or that of their foster parents, the teachers...
...Thompson's new book: Listen, Hans! In her book they will find a brilliant political essay making an argument of first importance to the makers of United Nations policies-and to the citizens who control the makers. She clears great jungled areas of confused thought to state the basic issue...
...theory, the U.S. has always accepted these principles, which are basic to a strategy of full offense. In practice, in a year marked by Pearl Harbor, the siege of Stalingrad and the British defeat in Africa in June, the Army & Navy had never dared conform. They tried to build every kind of materiel, expanded as fast as they could outfit the men, often hoarded equipment. If the agreement that Oliver Lyttelton got is really a matter of practice this time, Pearl Harbor is indeed a long way behind...