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...plain that unless the Manpower Commission, the Army, the Navy and Congress could reach a meeting of minds on a clear-cut program, the U.S. faced a breakdown in war production and essential civilian economy...
...with the expectancy that American foreign policy during the thirties can be halocd or blessed. Nothing could be farther from the truth, the truth made so painfully clear by page after page of very factual historical exposition. In precise chronological order, the department's analysts have recorded the breakdown of international morality during that distressed decade, and have attempted to weave some sort of cohesive web from the fragments of democratic resistance to this collapse...
...suffer from intestinal disturbances and disordered heart rate. A man with poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other men will brood over every step of a battle, with remorse for their own inadequacy, or for having participated in killing...
...lead story, Maurice Obregon's "Eclipse," is a less successful attempt to analyze the reaction of a group of academicians to the breakdown of the scientific hypotheses. Unfortunately weak in literary exposition, the story holds the reader by creating curiosity over a conclusion which will satisfy neither the mature philosopher nor the artist. Rodes Arnold's "Staring" displays far maturer descriptive technique, but much of its merit is destroyed as irrelevant threads reduce the plot to a meaninglessly banal hodgepodge...
...particular faction. Never before had the election of a national chairman meant so much, or been so vigorously contested. In 1928, the naming of the leader for the coming year was little more than a formality; last week in St. Louis it signified the completion of an internal breakdown that has tormented the Grand Old Party since the Philadelphia gallery broke all custom and practically nominated Wendell Willkie...