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...basic assumptions which the Council believes must underlie the peace will be outlined, and in the discussion that follows Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, will comment on the work that the group has done...
...peace to come there is much greater chance that it will be lasting if both Parties agree at the start on a basic international policy. The step Republicans have just taken adds immeasurably to internal unity and moreover, to hopes for the future...
What Would Be Fatal? The basic fact was still the same, terrible fact: that the Allies had too many fronts already. Soviet spokesmen (including Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff in Washington) no longer cried specifically for a second front in Europe; they insisted that the one supremely vital front was in Russia, that the one Allied task, above all, was to supply that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst...
...that Britain could not ignore its pledges to protect the Indian minorities. He offered to take all the blame for the failure of his mission, if that would help to unite India for her own defense. And he gave an eloquent argument for that unity. Said Sir Stafford: "The basic philosophy of the Japanese forces, as of their German counterparts, is that they, as a superior race, have the right to enslave all whom they can conquer. I have seen and heard of the exploits of the Nazis . . . and I know that none but the most diseased imagination could ever...
Good Neighbors. To the Good Neighbor policy Professor Spykman devotes the more urgently important half of his book. The basic mistake in the Good Neighbor policy, he points out, is the result of regarding the western hemisphere as capable of political or cultural unity...