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Inadequacy of planes and pilots equiped for high-altitude flight and combat is America's greatest military weakness, according to Dr. John F. Fulton '21, in an article in the latest issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Warning of our own lack of planes designed and tested for high-altitude combat, Fulton advised further training of pilots for this type of fighting. He urged a speeding up of aircraft production, and accused labor unions of treason and sabotage in delaying phases of the defense program...
...giving Britain priority on the bombers, Britain was to help the U. S. 1) through a production bottleneck by turning over to the Army enough engines to equip 41 Flying Fortress-type bombers, 2) by granting facilities to U. S. Army observers to watch American-made bombers perform in combat flight over the British Isles. If big bombers are to be sent to Britain this year, it did not seem likely that they would be withheld next year-even if the U. S. has to lend Britain the money to buy them...
...John K. Fairbank '27 chose as his topic "America Faces the Future in the Far East." Dr. Fairbank pointed out the importance of the growth of Japanese influence in Asia, urging a strong stand by the United States in order to combat the increasing Japanese encroachment. He also advocated greater aid to China...
...becoming war-conscious. Neither at that time nor in retrospect did it seem to me an edifying spectacle. The professors acted as recruiting officers and students marched off to war; for the most part their erstwhile instructors were not able either to lead or to follow them into the combat area. The cheering, however, was vociferous...