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...wonder then, that Boston audiences were bewildered and outraged when asked to imagine Mr. sycamore turning into a tree. True, the play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...
...studying on the marble stairs. The Union library no longer will be able to accomodate part of the Freshman class since that building has been given over completely to the Navy. Nor will the House libraries relieve the congestion since each House library has only one copy of each basic book in History, Government and Economics...
Precisely this basic decision seemed to have been made just last week?exactly ten months after Pearl Harbor. At least in its essentials, the decision even appeared to have been made?wrapped up and delivered in its minimum detail (so many weapons for so many men in such & such a time) to Donald Nelson, Paul McNutt and other key civilians who had to have the information before they could effectively get on with their jobs...
...Army had an answer. According to military men who should know best, the basic decisions were not so belated; the Army has long had a plan for global war. All that happened last week, according to these sources, was that General Marshall & staff at last let Don Nelson and a few other key civilians in on some of the end facts stemming from the Army's Master Plan. The Army's extreme reticence, up to last week, had simply been in the interests of necessary secrecy (the Army does not have a high regard for the discretion of civilian Washington...
...Malaya, Singapore and Java, events on the Russian front, the agitation for a second front, later conferences in London, Washington and Moscow, Joseph Stalin's demand for the fulfilment of Allied obligations "fully and on time"?none of these factors has materially altered the plan or the basic elements which originally determined its shape and timing, The attack on the outer Aleutians, the Battle of Midway and other events since last December have caused shifts in detail, not in the overall scope and direction of the plan...