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...have made clear to the French Government that a basic policy of this Government was to aid Great Britain. . . . Ambassador Leahy has been able to assure the Vichy Government that this nation had no other interests in any territories of the French Empire than their preservation for the French people...
Social Responsibility. Said one report: "People must be provided with basic shelter, food, fuel, clothing and health services, even if all the people, including the rich, have to be rationed...
...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...
...millions of Catholics who had long awaited guidance, to statesmen who cocked careful ears on both sides of the battle lines, Pope Pius XII last week broadcast his first solemn pronouncement on basic social issues-the rights of the individual v. the growing power of the State; the equitable distribution of social goods; the relations of capital & labor; the importance of the family; the necessity of Lebensraum for overcrowded peoples; the need for a return to the land. The Pope's address charted the rights and obligations of Catholics in a changing society and foreshadowed the Church...
...steel needs for 1943 or later. It took the view that Britain (which had to suspend imports of finished steel for two months this spring for lack of ships) would continue to need only 381,000 tons per month from the U.S. It made no mention of another basic argument for greatly increased capacity: the progressive deterioration of older, overstrained mills...